Georg Brandl wrote: > For one thing, releases generate "news", meaning that people will be made > aware that things are moving, that Python is well underway to its next > major versions, and maybe will be more inclined to look at what's new, > or check out a release.
I'd like to second that point of view: there's a kind of psychology of the web which presumes that a lack of activity on a project's release page indicates a defunct project. Even though you'd have to be really quite perverse to suggest that Python is stagnant, the fact of being able to announce to the world at large: "we're cutting our first 2.6 alpha release this Friday" is a clear indication that things are happening in the Python world. Even if, as an earlier poster suggested, all you're really doing is tagging a particular revision of your Subversion tree. TJG _______________________________________________ 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
