On 12 May 2008, at 04:59, David Cournapeau wrote: > Also, time-based releases are by definition predictable, and > as such, it is easier to plan upgrades for users
As long as it does not imply that users have to upgrade every 3 months, because for some users this is impossible and/or undesirable. By 'upgrading' I'm not only referring to numpy/scipy, but also to external packages based on numpy/scipy. As Mike, I'm a bit sceptic about the whole idea. The current way doesn't seem broken, so why fix it? The argument that "time-based releases avoids bugs caused by putting new untested things late in the release" doesn't sound very convincing to me. Isn't this a discipline issue? To me it seems that one can avoid this with feature-based releases too. In fact won't the time-pressure of time-based releases increase the tendency to include untested things? Just the 2 cents of a user, Joris Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
