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On Oct 3, 2008, at 12:34 AM, Anthony Baxter wrote:

It's happened a couple of times when I've made releases - the process
I had was to automate it as much as possible, then take the generated
tarball, unpack it freshly and run the full tests, and then check
things like the README and all those other places. Making a release is
still a pretty fiddly process, and things slip through.

Anthony's spot on. Even with a release script and PEP 101, it's still pretty labor intensive. Of course, Python 2.7 and 3.1 still have no official RM <wink> so if you want firsthand experience, the opportunity is available.

- -Barry

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