Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes: > [Guido] > > > I have one concern: an awful large number of patches went into 2.2.1 > > > in a very short time, and I worry a bit that one release candidate may > > > not be sufficient to make sure that we really didn't introduce any new > > > bugs. > > [Michael] > > I think the time argument may be a red herring; I'm not sure there are > > so many people checking the branch out that it really makes any > > difference. > > I was more thinking that you've been working so hard that your error > rate might have gone up. :-) Quite possibly. > > But I agree there have been a lot of changes, and some pretty subtle > > ones. > > That's the real reason to be cautious. > > > > Perhaps we should consider to issue a second release candidate, > > > or at least have a waiting time longer than 1 week between rc and > > > final. (I'd be happy with 2 weeks.) > > > > How about releasing 2.2.1c1, waiting two weeks and then deciding > > whether we need a c2? In an ideal world, changing the candidate > > release into a final release would just be a matter of changing > > version numbers. > > Sounds good, but that means two full weeks of willpower exercises. I think the effort of cleaning things up for rc1 has given me sufficient grouchiness for this. > Or did you think you wouldn't get any pressure to add more > last-minute fixes to rc2? :-) > > > Two weeks gets us pretty near Easter; I may not be around so much for > > the Easter weekend. > > I don't mind about the exact timing, and assuming there are no > disasters, not much would need to be done. OK, so my plan is: get 2.2.1c1 out; then wait and see what happens. Cheers, M. -- Java sucks. [...] Java on TV set top boxes will suck so hard it might well inhale people from off their sofa until their heads get wedged in the card slots. --- Jon Rabone, ucam.chat
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