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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Sep 23 23:27:40 CEST 2009

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 14:19, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

Benjamin Peterson wrote:

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, Are we definitely decided that 2.7 will be the last major release in the 2.x cycle?

I would say we won't be sure until we are closer to release, but I would be willing to put money down that it will be.

-Brett

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