That is an excellent thought. We could make the odd numbered releases "experimental" and the even-numbered as stable.
That makes some sense. What do others think? -Travis On Apr 23, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Travis Oliphant <tra...@continuum.io> wrote: >> Right now we are trying to balance difficult things: stable releases with >> experimental development. > > Perhaps a more formal "development release" system could help here. > IIUC, numpy pretty much has two things: the latest release (and past > ones) and master (and assorted experimentla branches). If someone > develops a new feature, we can either: > > have them submit a pull request, and people with the where-with-all > can pull it, compile, it, and start tesing it on their own -- hsitory > shows that this is a small group. > > merge it with master -- and hope it gets the testing is should before > it becomes part of a release, but: we are rightly heistant to put > experimental stuff in master, and it really dont' get that much > testing -- again only folks that are building master will even see it. > > > Some projects have a more format "development release" system. > wxPython, for instance has had for years development releases with odd > numbers -- right now, the official release is 2.8.*, but there is a > 2.9.* out there that is getting some use and testing. A couple of > things help make this work: > > 1) Robin makes the effort to put out binaries for development releases > -- it's easy to go get and give it a try. > > 2) there is the wxversion system that makes it easy to install a new > versin of wx, and easily switch between them (it's actually broken on > OS-X right now --- :-) ) -- this pre-dated virtualenv and friends, > maybe virtualenv is enough for this now. > > > Anyway, it's a thought -- I think some more rea-world use of new > features before a real commitment to adopting them would be great. > > -Chris > > > > > -- > > Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > Oceanographer > > Emergency Response Division > NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice > 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > > chris.bar...@noaa.gov > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
