On 1/17/2012 6:42 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:29:11 -0500 > Terry Reedy<tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote: >> >> To me, as I understand the proposal, the title is wrong. Our current >> feather releases already are long-term support versions. They get bugfix >> releases at close to 6 month intervals for 1 1/2 -2 years and security >> fixes for 3 years. The only change here is that you propose, for >> instance, a fixed 6-month interval and 2 year period. >> >> As I read this, you propose to introduce a new short-term (interim, >> preview) feature release along with each bugfix release. Each would have >> all the bugfixes plus a preview of the new features expected to be in >> the next long-term release. (I know, this is not exactly how you spun it.) The main point of my comment is that the new thing you are introducing is not long-term supported versions but short term unsupported versions. > Well, "spinning" is important here. We are not proposing any "preview" > releases. These would have the same issue as alphas or betas: nobody I said nothing about quality. We aim to keep default in near-release condition and seem to be getting better. The new unicode is still getting polished a bit, it seems, after 3 months, but that is fairly unusual. > wants to install them where they could disrupt working applications and > libraries. > > What we are proposing are first-class releases that are as robust as > any other (and usable in production). But I am dubious that releases that are obsolete in 6 months and lack 3rd party support will see much production use. > It's really about making feature releases more frequent, > not making previews available during development. Given the difficulty of making a complete windows build, it would be nice to have one made available every 6 months, regardless of how it is labeled. I believe that some people will see and use good-for-6-months releases as previews of the new features that will be in the 'real', normal, bug-fix supported, long-term releases. Every release is a snapshot of a continuous process, with some extra effort made to tie up some (but not all) of the loose ends. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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