My preferred planning strategy is to decide on the goals and then try to
work out how to achieve them. The PSF will take direction from its
members and from active developers. But Christian is right about the
absence of a business plan.
Perhaps when the current release phase is over we need to have a serious
discussion about other things the PSF can do to support more effective
development. *Before* we get into the next releases!
If we could get good paid help to massage the tracker that might help,
but it might not be possible. Given an expressed need from a majority of
the community I would do what I can to support improvements in the
development process. It's important, and it would be nice to see closer
involvement between PSF and developers.
The main thing that's missing right not is the necessary consensus to
start investing time and money.
regards
Steve
Anthony Baxter wrote:
What would this professionalisation get us that we don't have now? As
far as I can see, the biggest hole at the moment (as always) is with
people to trawl the tracker and triage bug reports and patches.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Ubuntu's sophisticated release plan is certainly justified by its
business model, and the desire to both appeal to the open source people
and the corporate people without creating two different distributions.
I don't think Python has the same business requirements (neither does it
have marketing and commercial teams), and having differentiated releases
sounds like unwarranted complication.
IMHO the PSF and Python core development crew doesn't have a business plan
at all. By business plan I'm referring to making money with Python directly.
As far as I know most core developers are working on Python beause it's fun.
Some developers like Guido are paid by their employers to work on Python as
part of their job.
Just a crazy idea ... Maybe it's time to make the next step toward
professionalizing Python. Python is more and more becoming important for
companies. They have to rely upon a stable and solid Python interpreter.
Perhaps some companies are willing to pay the PSF. In return the PSF could
hire some developer to work on Python full time. A couple of months ago one
well known core developer expressed his interest in a paid job. A crew of
three to four full time developers could make a huge difference.
Just my two non-Canonical cents of course!
Nice pun :)
Christian
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