On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:05:24 +0200 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:25:17 +0530 > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > > > I don't agree. It's my understanding that the alphas are largely ignored, > > > and having them earlier would hardly make them more relevant. > > > > I would appreciate it you stopped promoting this myth. Each step in > > the release process widens the pool of people providing feedback. > > Well, if you look at the download statistics at > http://www.python.org/webstats/ or even at the bug influx when > publishing an alpha, it seems clear to me that alphas have almost no > impact. Erm, I hadn't seen Brian's reply before sending this. Apparently there *are* people who download the alphas, which for some reason I had overlooked in the stats pages. My mistake, sorry. Regards Antoine. -- Software development and contracting: http://pro.pitrou.net _______________________________________________ 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
