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

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Fri Oct 5 05:02:26 CEST 2012

Executive summary:

Larry admits that doing an early alpha is a plausible experiment, he just has reasons not to do it himself. OTOH, Nick has a reason for wanting to do it in this release cycle.

It's Larry's call; we should restrict ourselves to giving him the information he requests to make a decision on which reasons are more important to him.

Serhiy Storchaka writes:

On 03.10.12 20:10, MRAB wrote:

I downloaded the alphas to test the support for PEP 393 I'd added to the regex module.

Hardly alpha would be useful to you if it released before PEP 393 implementation.

Of course not. But Nick is requesting this precisely because the PEPs he wants to get extra testing are already implemented, or very close to it, and presumably his (implied) promise to have "reasonably complete" implementations available by alpha 1 is credible. So your counterfactual is hardly relevant.

MRAB's example of how alphas are useful is relevant because it's a real example, with rationale, of the kind of third-party integration testing Larry suspects won't happen if an alpha is released way early.

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