Barry Warsaw wrote: > OTOH, a more formal gamma phase would allow us to say > "absolutely no changes are allowed now unless it's to fix backward > compatibility". No more sneaking in new sys functions or types > module constants <wink> during the gamma phase.
This is pretty common in project management. For instance, GCC has a rather complex 4-stage release process, whose last phase (beginning at the point the release is branched in SVN) is made of commits only for regressions. -- Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
