On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> I'm a little confused -- why did you remove the release notes for >> previous betas but leave those for the alphas in place? ISTM that the >> file was an accumulation of release notes throughout the various >> releases -- just like Misc/NEWS, but with a different focus. This is >> how release notes in other products I've seen typically work, too. > > Mostly because I wasn't sure which of those release notes are still > relevant. I asked (albeit in a different thread) for some assistance in > determining what the current state of those are. > > I'm not so sure it's helpful to separately indicate release notes for alphas > and betas, and it's definitely not helpful to include items that are no > longer relevant. My thought was to list only those that apply to the final > release, and then track them with public stable releases such as 3.0.1, > 3.0.2, etc.
Well, all the alpha notes should have been fixed by now too -- they all describe temporary deviations from our high standard for releases. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
