[Python-Dev] PEP 407: New release cycle and introducing long-term support versions (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jan 18 14:02:07 CET 2012

Le mercredi 18 janvier 2012 à 21:48 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit :

My claim is that I don't expect much uptake if you don't do close to as many of what are called "alpha" and "beta" tests on python-dev as are currently done.

You claim people won't use stable releases because of not enough alphas? That sounds completely unrelated. I don't know of any users who would bother about that. (you can produce flimsy software with many alphas, too)

> Alphas and betas never produce much feedback, because people are > reluctant to install them for anything else than toying around. Python > is not emacs or Firefox, you don't use it in a vacuum > and therefore installing non-stable versions is dangerous.

Exactly my point, except that the PEP authors seem to think that we can cut back on the number of alpha and beta prereleases and still achieve the stability that such users expect from a Python release. I don't think that's right.

Sure, and we think it is :)

Regards

Antoine.

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