On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2014, at 01:59 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote: > > >This actually sounds like a real and interesting reason to have stable > >Python 3.4 out in march. Ubuntu 14.04 is a LTS, which makes it an > important > >version for corporate distributions. > > Ubuntu 14.04 feature freeze is Feb 20, with beta 1 coming on Feb 27, so I > think we have to make a hard decision about whether Python 3.4 will be the > default before then (actually, Matthias and I will discuss it this week). > > If we go with 3.4 as default, then 14.04 final beta is March 27th. Python > 3.4's final release is currently schedule for March 16, but that doesn't > include the proposed additional beta. Pushing everything back a week means > the schedule is quite tight, so we may have to plan on doing an SRU (stable > release upgrade) to the final Python 3.4. That's not ideal though because > it > means a lot of users may not get it (if they don't upgrade), and most > probably > won't see it until 14.04.1 is released some time later. > > The closer Python 3.4 can stick to the March 16th release, the better. > Yes. That's the whole point of time-based releases. Please stick to the plan. We've already slipped once. Perfection is not required. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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