Schedule update. Plan for a beta 1 release on 4/25/03.

pep-0283.txt

@@ -25,11 +25,12 @@ Abstract
     Here's a tentative release schedule that follows the above
     guidelines:
 
+      alpha 1  --  December 31, 2002
       alpha 2  --  February 19, 2003
-      beta 1   --  late March
-      beta 2   --  late April
-      rc 1     --  late May
-      final    --  early June
+      beta 1   --  April 25, 2003
+      beta 2   --  late May
+      rc 1     --  late June
+      final    --  early July
 
 
 Release Manager
@@ -137,6 +138,11 @@ Completed features for 2.3
 
     - A new pickling protocol.  See PEP 307.
 
+    - PEP 305 (CSV File API, by Skip Montanaro et al.) is in; this is
+      the csv package.
+
+    - Raymond Hettinger's itertools module is in.
+
 
 Planned features for 2.3
 
@@ -155,22 +161,12 @@ Planned features for 2.3
     - We need a new PyArg_Parse*() format code that returns an
       unsigned C long int that receives the lower LONG_BIT bits of the
       Python argument, truncating without range checking.  (SF
-      595026.)
-
-    - For a class defined inside another class, the __name__ should be
-      "outer.inner", and pickling should work.  (SF 633930.  I'm no
-      longer certain this is easy or even right.)
+      595026; Thomas Heller is working on this.)
 
     - The import lock could use some redesign.  (SF 683658.)
 
     - PEP 311 (Simplified GIL Acquisition for Extensions, by Mark
-      Hammond) may be ready in time to get it in.
-
-    - PEP 305 (CSV File API, by Skip Montanaro et al.) might go in; I
-      don't know what the authors' plans are.
-
-    - PEP 304 (Controlling Generation of Bytecode Files by Montanaro)
-      might go in; I've lost track of the status.
+      Hammond) is expected to go into beta 1.
 
 
 Ongoing tasks
@@ -208,6 +204,11 @@ Open issues
     before the final release (and preferably before the first beta
     release).  For example:
 
+    - TBD
+
+
+Features unlikely to make it into Python 2.3
+
     - Set API issues; is the sets module perfect?
 
       I expect it's good enough to stop polishing it until we've had
@@ -220,19 +221,23 @@ Open issues
 
       Ditto.
 
-    - Fredrik Lundh's basetime proposal:
-      http://effbot.org/ideas/time-type.htm
-
-      I believe this is dead now.
-
     - New widgets for Tkinter???
 
       Has anyone gotten the time for this?  *Are* there any new
       widgets in Tk 8.4?  Note that we've got better Tix support
       already (though not on Windows yet).
 
+    - Fredrik Lundh's basetime proposal:
+      http://effbot.org/ideas/time-type.htm
 
-Features unlikely to make it into Python 2.3
+      I believe this is dead now.
+
+    - PEP 304 (Controlling Generation of Bytecode Files by Montanaro)
+      seems to have lost steam.
+
+    - For a class defined inside another class, the __name__ should be
+      "outer.inner", and pickling should work.  (SF 633930.  I'm no
+      longer certain this is easy or even right.)
 
     - reST is going to be used a lot in Zope3.  Maybe it could become
       a standard library module?  (Since reST's author thinks it's too
@@ -254,10 +259,6 @@ Features unlikely to make it into Python 2.3
       covered yet (e.g. string.whitespace and types.TracebackType).
       It seems we can't get consensus on this.
 
-    - An iterator tools module featuring goodies from SML and Haskell?
-      http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-May/024418.html
-      I haven't heard about this in ages.
-
     - Deprecate the buffer object.
       http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/026388.html
       http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/026408.html
@@ -265,12 +266,14 @@ Features unlikely to make it into Python 2.3
 
     - PEP 269  Pgen Module for Python                       Riehl
 
-      I haven't heard from Jon Riehl since he moved to Chicago.
+      (Some necessary changes are in; the pgen module itself needs to
+      mature more.)
 
     - Add support for the long-awaited Python catalog.  Kapil
       Thangavelu has a Zope-based implementation that he demoed at
       OSCON 2002.  Now all we need is a place to host it and a person
-      to champion it.
+      to champion it.  (Some changes to distutils to support this are
+      in, at least.)
 
     - PEP 266  Optimizing Global Variable/Attribute Access  Montanaro
       PEP 267  Optimized Access to Module Namespaces        Hylton