From f298ff76fa73acad9adce94fcdeef8a3ca8953f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Peters Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 02:48:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated release schedule. Reworded various stuff for parallelsim and conformance to reality. --- pep-0283.txt | 42 ++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/pep-0283.txt b/pep-0283.txt index 6743fa809..6554e0f36 100644 --- a/pep-0283.txt +++ b/pep-0283.txt @@ -22,23 +22,21 @@ Abstract release does not count). Release candidates will be spaced at least one week apart (excepting again blunder corrections). - The schedule so far has had longer gaps than planned: - - alpha 1 -- December 31, 2002 - alpha 2 -- February 19, 2003 - beta 1 -- April 25, 2003 - beta 2 -- June 29, 2003 + alpha 1 -- 31 Dec 2002 + alpha 2 -- 19 Feb 2003 + beta 1 -- 25 April 2003 + beta 2 -- 29 Jun 2003 + candidate 1 -- 18 Jul 2003 Here is the schedule for the remaining releases: - July 17, 2003 -- rc 1 - July 24, 2003 -- rc 2 if necessary, otherwise final - July 31, 2003 -- final (if rc 2) + candidate 2 -- 24 Jul 2003 + final -- 31 Jul 2003 Release Manager - Barry Warsaw, Jeremy Hylton + Barry Warsaw, Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters Completed features for 2.3 @@ -90,7 +88,7 @@ Completed features for 2.3 few things use this at this time. - Warn when an extension type's tp_compare returns anything except - -1, 0 or 1. http://www.python.org/sf/472523 + -1, 0 or 1. http://www.python.org/sf/472523 - Warn for assignment to None (in various forms). @@ -154,23 +152,14 @@ Completed features for 2.3 bits, truncating without range checking. (SF 595026; Thomas Heller did this work.) - - A new version of IDLE was imported from the IDLEfork project + - A new version of IDLE was imported from the IDLEfork project (http://idlefork.sf.net). The code now lives in the idlelib package in the standard library and the idle script is installed by setup.py. Planned features for 2.3 - Here are a few PEPs and other ideas under consideration, with - comments in "parade of the PEPs" style. Not all of these will be - part of the final 2.3 release; we'll update the list as decisions - crystallize. - - This is pretty much an unordered laundry list. Please send - feedback to python-dev@python.org; I hope to maintain this for the - life of the 2.3 development process. - - - The import lock could use some redesign. (SF 683658.) + Too late for anything more to get done here. Ongoing tasks @@ -209,10 +198,15 @@ Open issues before the final release (and preferably before the first beta release). For example: - - TBD + - As of release candidate 1, a raft of mysterious problems + cropped up seemingly unique to Cygwin. If these are really due + to the Python core (too soon to guess), it could dely the final + release arbitrarily long. -Features unlikely to make it into Python 2.3 +Features that did not make it into Python 2.3 + + - The import lock could use some redesign. (SF 683658.) - Set API issues; is the sets module perfect?