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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jan 18 16:51:59 CET 2012

Le jeudi 19 janvier 2012 à 00:25 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit :

> You claim people won't use stable releases because of not enough > alphas? That sounds completely unrelated. Surely testing is related to user perceptions of stability. More testing helps reduce bugs in released software, which improves user perception of stability, encouraging them to use the software in production.

I have asked a practical question, a theoretical answer isn't exactly what I was waiting for.

> Sure, and we think it is [possible to do that] :)

Given the relative risk of rejecting PEP 407 and me being wrong (the status quo really isn't all that bad AFAICS), vs. accepting PEP 407 and you being wrong, I don't find a smiley very convincing.

I don't care to convince you, since you are not involved in Python development and release management (you haven't ever been a contributor AFAIK). Unless you produce practical arguments, saying "I don't think you can do it" is plain FUD and certainly not worth answering to.

Regards

Antoine.

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