[Python-Dev] [python-committers] PQM? (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 23:04:33 CEST 2008
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Christian Heimes wrote:
Perhaps we could adopt a release plan similar to Ubuntu. They have releases with cool, new and bleeding edge stuff followed by a release that focuses on stability and long term support. Python 2.6 and especially 3.0 are releases with new features. What do you think about focusing on stability and long time support for 2.7 and 3.1? 2.7 might be the last version of the 2.x series and we sure gonna have to fix lots of issues in the 3.x series until it's matured.
I actually thought that was the plan for 2.7/3.1 ever since Guido started talking about Py3k as a real thing instead of a "at some unspecified time in the future" activity.
(Well, for 3.1 anyway - 2.6 should be as rock solid as we can make it, but 3.0 is going to have issues with availability of third party extensions no matter how solid or otherwise the core might be)
Cheers, Nick.
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