[Python-Dev] thinking about 2.7 (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Wed Sep 23 23:52:38 CEST 2009

Benjamin Peterson wrote:

2009/9/23 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 13:34, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

As for burn out, I expected 2.7.x, as the last 2.x release, to be different in that several people would do the maintenance releases (perhaps on a 6 month schedule or so) for the 5 year period, so that would leave me with just 3.2.x (and maybe another 3.1.x release). Well, if you want that to happen you should make that clear now as I expected you to do the first few micro releases of 2.7. I will do the first few 2.7 bug fix releases.

Additionally, I'm very apprehensive about doing any kind of release without the buildbots running. Does anyone know when they might be up?

I don't know the answer, but it might be "never". We used to do releases without them, so it's not impossible. Just means you have to really push the alphas, betas, and RCs. What do you mean "push"? Promote. That basically means we will be relying on 3rd party libraries for our quality control? Isn't that the real compatibility test anyway - how successful a new version of Python is at running all the existing Python code...

Michael

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