[Python-Dev] Stability and Change (original) (raw)

Gordon McMillan gmcm@hypernet.com
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:48:08 -0400

On 11 Apr 2002 at 0:46, Skip Montanaro wrote:

... Guaranteeing the shelf-life of releases for potentially two years, when PythonLabs typically releases every six months, means you're going to have four active releases going at any one time. That means every bug fix that is applied to the main CVS trunk has to at least be considered for backporting to all those other releases, maybe not applied, but at least considered. Practically speaking, that means you need a release manager for each of those active releases, and they have (or a combination of people) have to commit to that activity for two years.

I think you are overstating by a bit. If a bug fix doesn't apply to release N, it (normally) won't apply to release N-1. The oldest release will see only a small fraction of the activity the most recent has.

Of course, more work is still more work.

-- Gordon

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