[Zope-dev] Bugfix release?

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:57:16 -0500


> Says who? I thought the idea behind it was to get the releases out
> early, so you can find the bugs faster and get the releases more
> stable more quickly...
> 
> I guess what I'm saying is that for a version 2.x.y, x should behave
> as you describe while y should go up as often as a bug is discovered
> and fixed...

That means we either waste a lot more time doing releases, or the
releases become a lot more shoddy, hardly more than a snapshot from
CVS.  Neither sounds attractive, sorry.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)