Re: [python-committers] Python 3.6 Release Schedule Details

2015-10-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 3 October 2015 at 05:41, Ned Deily wrote: > On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:20, R. David Murray wrote: >> That said, I do feel the amount of pre-release testing, even in the beta >> part of the cycle, has increased steadily in the past two or three >> releases,

Re: [python-committers] Python 3.6 Release Schedule Details

2015-10-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 03, 2015, at 11:28 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >We also looked at trying to land 3.5 for this month's Fedora 23 >release (which would have involved bringing the pre-releases into >Fedora Rawhide), but decided it more sense to prioritise further work >on the Python 3 migration instead. It's

Re: [python-committers] Python 3.6 Release Schedule Details

2015-10-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 4 October 2015 at 00:31, Barry Warsaw wrote: > It's almost as if there's a Linux Cabal[*] dividing and conquering! Who, us? :) (Actually, mostly *not* me - I'm mainly a cheerleader, while folks like Slavek Kabrda, Robert Kuska, Petr Viktorin, Matej Stuchlik, Miro Hroncok,

Re: [python-committers] Python 3.6 Release Schedule Details

2015-10-02 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:24:18 -0400, Ned Deily wrote: > Another change has been to add a fourth beta and drop the third > release candidate. My gut feeling from the past several releases is > that a lot of feature code does not get checked in until close to the > b1 feature code

Re: [python-committers] Python 3.6 Release Schedule Details

2015-10-02 Thread Ned Deily
On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:20, R. David Murray wrote: > On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:24:18 -0400, Ned Deily wrote: >> Another change has been to add a fourth beta and drop the third >> release candidate. My gut feeling from the past several releases is >> that a lot of

Re: [python-committers] Python 3.6 Release Schedule Details

2015-10-02 Thread Terry Reedy
On 10/2/2015 3:41 PM, Ned Deily wrote: On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:20, R. David Murray wrote: On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:24:18 -0400, Ned Deily wrote: Another change has been to add a fourth beta and drop the third release candidate. My gut feeling from the past

[python-committers] Python 3.6 Release Schedule Details

2015-10-01 Thread Ned Deily
FYI - I've just updated PEP 494 with a fleshed-out 3.6.0 release schedule. The 3.6 schedule is generally similar to the successful 18-month development and release cycle used in recent releases but with a few significant changes. The main difference is that the 3.6 schedule takes advantage of