[Python-Dev] thinking about 2.7 (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Wed Sep 23 22:34:10 CEST 2009

2009/9/23 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:35, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

Hi everyone, I've started plotting the release of 2.7. I'd like to try for a final release mid next summer. 3.2 should be released, if not at the same time as 2.7, within a few weeks to avoid 2.x having features which 3.x doesn't. If no one has problems with this, I will draft a schedule.

Yes. Does this mean you are volunteering to be the 3.2 release manager? Or simply prodding for volunteers? If it's the former are you at all worried about burn-out from doing two release so close together and being on the hook for two point releases at roughly the same time for about two years after?

While I certainly wouldn't mind doing only 2.7, I don't know how we could preserve everyone's sanity and release them at about the same time. Different RMs would have different times they can do releases, so I would worry about there being a release in a slightly different stage of a different branch every couple weeks.

As for burn out, I expected 2.7.x, as the last 2.x release, to be different in that several people would do the maintenance releases (perhaps on a 6 month schedule or so) for the 5 year period, so that would leave me with just 3.2.x (and maybe another 3.1.x release).

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Additionally, I'm very apprehensive about doing any kind of release without the buildbots running. Does anyone know when they might be up? I don't know the answer, but it might be "never". We used to do releases without them, so it's not impossible. Just means you have to really push the alphas, betas, and RCs.

What do you mean "push"?

-- Regards, Benjamin

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