[Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints) (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Fri Jul 14 03:21:27 CEST 2006

On Thursday 13 July 2006 16:05, Barry Warsaw wrote:

This really is an excellent point and makes me think that we may want to consider elaborating on the Python release cycle to include a gamma phase or a longer release candidate cycle. OT1H I think there ... "absolutely no changes are allowed now unless it's to fix backward compatibility". No more sneaking in new sys functions or types module constants during the gamma phase.

+42

It feels like the release cycle from alpha1 to final has gotten increasingly rushed. While I'm sure some of that is just me having my attention elsewhere, I suspect a longer tail on the cycle to do gammas (or release candidates, or whatever) would definately encourage more testing with applications and the larger frameworks.

No, it won't catch everything, but I think it would help.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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