[Python-Dev] Timing for Py2.4 (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Tue Mar 30 10:54:19 EST 2004

I have no interest in having my motives or my intentions maligned any further. I volunteered as release manager purely from a desire to help the Python community, my only goal is to keep Python's release quality at a high level.

Due to abusive private email, I have no interest in continuing this thread. Cutting releases is a non-trivial amount of (quite boring, and high concentration) work. Demands that I spend time on it when it suits someone else are both insulting and unrealistic. Being accused of bad faith because I have a different belief in the correct time to do a release is beyond insulting.

If anyone is absolutely wanting to do the release sooner than the timeframe we discussed at PyCon, they're welcome to it. But don't take this on unless you're going to do it right, and all of it. This includes all the cross-platform testing, and chasing up people to make sure it gets tested on the more obscure platforms. I'm still planning to get a 2.3.4 out in May, and if the 2.4 release happens in the timeframe that I can deal with it, I'm happy to do it.

Anthony

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