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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:12:33 -0400

[Aahz]

Skip's already answered with half of my point. The other half that's critical to this is making it easy and comfortable to try out dev releases and promoting this through the community. We want to encourage people to do this, and in my time on python-dev (plus more time on c.l.py), I have seen little attempt to directly address this.

What's a dev release? An alpha or beta, I presume. Under that definition, every single dev release gets promoted in the community with a posting in c.l.py and c.l.py.announce, a webpage, a Windows installer, and so on. What more do we need?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)