Barry Warsaw wrote: >> Alterntaively, I guess you could just suggest that people check the >> buildbot page for their platforms before downloading .... > > Yes, good idea. I'm only going to cut source tarballs for the alphas. >
I apologize for having doubt in your plan, and I can certainly appreciate the work you will be doing as release manager. But.. I don't understand who these alpha releases are supposed to be for, and who they will serve. When I first saw this plan, I thought "ok, you're the man.." But now I wonder even more if they are only going to be source tarballs. Who is the intended audience of these alphas? It seems like cutting only source tarballs is targeting developers, and if that is the case, I wonder if you have misplaced your motivations. I'm not sure what developer outside of the core community would want to work with something missing key features and released fairly arbitrarily. Ok, I grant you that it's a monthly cycle, but there are no feature milestones involved, so it's fairly arbitrary from a utility standpoint; it's not clear to me that we are even worrying about all of the buildbots being green before releasing. More to the point, I don't know why a developer wouldn't just checkout from SVN in any case. Certainly if they are going to help root out bugs, then we would like them to be using the trunk if possible. I fear that once an alpha is 2 weeks old, we will start saying "please check if its still a problem on the trunk." A mild concern is how this effects checkins with individuals either trying to meet a deadline or even wait until after an alpha release to checkin a large change. I'm not sure this will happen, but having releases scheduled without feature milestones attached certainly changes the environment for work to be done in. I guess I am hoping to understand better how these alphas serve us. Again, I apologize if that sounded judgmental, but I wanted to make sure that releasing alphas was the best plan. And again, I appreciate your enthusiasm and effort. -- Scott Dial [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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
