[Python-Dev] Re: Stability and change (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:57:30 -0400

"SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

SM> Oh well. Guido already complains (rightfully so, I believe) SM> that there is very little community input on the existing SM> alpha/beta/rc1/rc2 process. As he put it earlier today, people SM> who check out 2.2final think they are early adopters. If most SM> people don't test out early releases now, Tim's been wasting his SM> time generating all those installers.

Here you say: Few people download and test development releases.

SM> The only way a significant change in the development model is SM> going to work is if the effort necessary to generate micro SM> releases drops drastically.

Here you say: Let's do more development releases.

Why?

Jeremy