-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 1, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> The fact that Barry found Anthony's process unusable is IMO not a > reflection on either Barry or Anthony's code. Release processes seem > to be highly personal, even within the same project. My own project > (XEmacs) has 3 concurrent processes going at any one time (stable > core, unstable core, stdlib). In my time with the project, stable > core has seen two RM successions, unstable core has seen four, and > stdlib has seen two. In no case did the new RM adopt the tools of any > of his predecessors, but in two cases one person was a successor > twice, and in both cases they reverted to their old tools. All > processes seem to have been of roughly the same quality (my opinion, > there are no metrics available). I agree with all of this, and I definitely never meant to impugn Anthony's hack. However, I would categorize every release tool I've ever used (both bought and built, in a commercial or FLOSS environment) as "a hack". Releasing something as complex as Python is just going to be a PITA, so all the RM is looking for is a hack that fits his hands better and does just enough to lower his threshold of pain, or ToP (tm), to a level where he doesn't want to spend his time waiting for the next step by plunging ice picks into his earholes. I'm sure when Anthony releases Python 2.9 <wink> he'll curse my release tool too. Or he'll do the smart thing and as Stephen suggests, just ditch my pile of crap and resurrect welease. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBR8yAg3EjvBPtnXfVAQIW2QP/e0Ny+l8mYGrOzmVJ1zCDZp9cdvBVgEXB fBWc0UPjyBRhmVBoeZ773R5j/IMlsLCetp2VKDkDCutq4PRo9z78ZjrYE2M2+RZP rigMxReSvv5Nw83kOXRy99jQva0ptjnYw2Gdpd1nhtlVSrRmEXaLnVF52Z2hLgul Q9JkBpg7kr8= =PEaE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
