updated schedule

pep-0320.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 PEP: 320
 Title: Python 2.4 Release Schedule
 Version: $Revision$
-Author: Barry Warsaw and Raymond Hettinger
+Author: Barry Warsaw, Raymond Hettinger and Anthony Baxter
 Status: Incomplete
 Type: Informational
 Created: 29-Jul-2003
@@ -19,21 +19,20 @@ Abstract
     one release candidate.  The release date is not yet fixed but a
     rough target for the first alpha is July 2004.
 
-      land generator expressions -- first week of May (this PEP seems to 
-      be the largest potential source of upheaval, so it should go 
-      in well before the alpha release).
-      alpha 1 -- second week of July 2004
-      alpha 2 -- four weeks later
-      beta 1 -- TBD (perhaps August) depending on the number of bugs
-      in the alphas.      
-      final -- September? This will depend on how the alphas and betas
-      go, and might be pushed back if several rounds of bugfixing are needed.
-      
-
 Release Manager
 
     Anthony Baxter
 
+    Martin von Lowis is building the Windows installers, Fred the 
+    doc packages, Sean the RPMs.
+
+Release Schedule
+
+    July 9: alpha 1 [completed]
+
+    August 5/6: alpha 2
+
+    August 26/27: alpha 3 or beta 1
 
 Completed features for 2.4
 
@@ -56,16 +55,21 @@ Completed features for 2.4
 
     Add two statistical/reduction functions, nlargest() and nsmallest()
     to the heapq module.
+
+    Python's windows installer now uses MSI
     
 
 Planned features for 2.4
 
+    These features are all planned for 2.4b1, but have not yet landed.
+
     PEP 292 Simpler String Substitutions to be implemented as a module.
 
-    PEP 318: Function/method decorator syntax
+    PEP 318: Function/method decorator syntax, using @syntax
 
     PEP 328: Imports: Multi-line and Absolute/Relative.  (Still quite
-    controversial.)
+    controversial.) No-one has stepped forward to champion this, so it's
+    looking like it might not make it in.
 
     Deprecate and/or remove the modules listed in PEP 4 (posixfile,
     gopherlib, pre, others)
@@ -81,10 +85,15 @@ Planned features for 2.4
     which implement async servers using SSL have to require third-party
     packages such as pyopenssl.  
 
-    AST-based compiler: if this branch can land in the trunk by early 
+Deferred until 2.5:
-    May, it can go in.  Otherwise it can wait for a future release.
+
-    This will not be in 2.4, but will land on the trunk some time after
+    - AST-based compiler: this branch was not completed in time for 
-    2.4 final is out, for inclusion in 2.5.
+      2.4, but will land on the trunk some time after 2.4 final is 
+      out, for inclusion in 2.5.
+
+    - 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
+      instable, I'm inclined not to do this.)
 
 
 Ongoing tasks
@@ -144,10 +153,6 @@ Carryover features from Python 2.3
       "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
-      instable, I'm inclined not to do this.)
-
     - Decide on a clearer deprecation policy (especially for modules)
       and act on it.  For a start, see this message from Neil Norwitz:
       http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-April/023165.html