On 5/21/06, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Allow me to pitch in my support for speeding up the releases, then. I don't believe alpha releases (of Python) get serious testing. They wet appetites, but until the feature-freeze it's really too much in flux to even worry about extensive testing. Speeding up the releases makes sense to me, considering how little ruckus they've made so far (in spite of two rather complex internal changes), and it also means people get their hands on a beta -- good testing material -- that much sooner.
An acceptable (to me) alternative would be to skip alpha3. The biggest change is Martin's rewrite of various os.* methods, which IMHO isn't really that big a deal (it's not *supposed* to change too many semantics, anyway :)
-- On Sun, May 21, 2006, Neal Norwitz wrote:
> On 5/19/06, Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>Remember, the feature freeze isn't until beta1. New stuff can still go
>>in after the next alpha, before beta1.
>
> I agree. Of course, it's preferable to get things in ASAP to get more
> testing.
Nevertheless, I still think that putting out an alpha during or right
before a major sprint is awkward at best. My testing is more focused on
alpha releases than the trunk, and I think other people work similarly.
Except for Anthony, the responses you've gotten to this surprising
change have been negative; this doesn't seem in keeping with our usual
decision-making process.
Allow me to pitch in my support for speeding up the releases, then. I don't believe alpha releases (of Python) get serious testing. They wet appetites, but until the feature-freeze it's really too much in flux to even worry about extensive testing. Speeding up the releases makes sense to me, considering how little ruckus they've made so far (in spite of two rather complex internal changes), and it also means people get their hands on a beta -- good testing material -- that much sooner.
An acceptable (to me) alternative would be to skip alpha3. The biggest change is Martin's rewrite of various os.* methods, which IMHO isn't really that big a deal (it's not *supposed* to change too many semantics, anyway :)
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