> > Message: 14 > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:48:12 -0700 > From: Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca> > To: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>, python-dev@python.org > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Stability and Change > > Skip Montanaro wrote: > > From where I sit this seems untenable, simply because what > you're proposing > > is going to require having three or four release managers at > the same time, > > each managing bugfixes and (what was the term?) "minor features" for a > > previous release. Ain't no way I'm going to backport a change to three > > previous releases. But that's not the point. Who asked you to backport new features? If the consensus is that 2.1.3 is pretty stable and it is labelled as such, work should be minimal. But it won't happen often. And by definition we don't want the minor features backported; unnecessary changes to the code base would destabilize it. It's absolutely reasonable to find those with an interest in maintaining a stable track and get them to do some of the work. I'm more attuned to helping with packaging and distribution simply because I can't program in C. I think the solution is somewhat outside the core Python team's hands. Those of us who really care about stability need to get together and forge the consensus that we can skip some releases; those of you wanting to forge ahead just need to accept that there are sound reasons for many people to have an upgrade cycle longer than 6 months. Having said that, we just designate the 18-month ones arbitrarily, so that (for example) ReportLab and Zope and eGenix are fairly likely to want the same Python on a customer box in a given quarter. In summary I'd like a note from Guido on the download page saying "we do releases every 6 months but if you prefer a longer cycle, go for 2.1.3 for now, and I will designate a stable 2.4.X release some time in 2003". It doesn't mean 2.2 or 2.3 is bad in any way, but it gives us a decent planning horizon. Maybe EuroPython is the time to pick this up. - Andy Robinson
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