[Python-Dev] Proposed schedule for Python 3.4 (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Oct 3 18:01:37 CEST 2012

On Oct 03, 2012, at 11:22 AM, R. David Murray wrote:

I don't have any data to back this up, but it is my impression that more distributions are providing access to alpha releases in their "testing" package trees.

Ubuntu and Debian generally does, thanks to Matthias's great work. Python 3.3's been available (though obviously not the default) in Ubuntu 12.10 for a while now, and in Debian experimental, and we have started to get package build failure reports related to it:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-python@lists.debian.org;tag=python3.3

It's not that much yet though, and I'm not sure if having the alphas available really helps with that, but it is nice to be able to make alphas available to our users via experimental, PPAs, etc. so that folks can play with it much more easily.

As Python continues to grow in importance[1], the number of people interacting with Python on the distribution development teams[2] increases, and therefor the number of people likely to run alphas for testing increases. So even if Larry were right now, he isn't right for the future, and we should do all we can to nurture an increasing culture of alpha-testing.

Definitely.

[1] in case anyone hasn't noticed, we are a growing community, regardless of where various analytics put us relative to other languages :)

Which is fantastic!

Cheers, -Barry

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