PEP: 251 Title: Python 2.2 Release Schedule Version: $Revision$ Author: Guido van Rossum Status: Incomplete Type: Informational Created: 17-Apr-2001 Python-Version: 2.2 Post-History: Abstract This document describes the post-Python 2.1 development and release schedule. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized items. Small bug fixes and changes will occur up until the first beta release. NOTE: the schedule below and the list of features under consideration are all subject to change! If the energy in the community changes or the feedback on a PEP is particularly positive or negative, this may affect decisions. Release Schedule Tentative future release dates (compare pep-0226) 17-Oct-2001: 2.2 (final release) 10-Oct-2001: 2.2c1 (release candidate) 19-Sep-2001: 2.2b2 29-Aug-2001: 2.2b1 8-Aug-2001: 2.2a2 18-Jul-2001: 2.2a1 Release Mechanics I'd like to experiment with a new mechanism for releases: a week before every alpha, beta or other release, I'll fork off a branch which will become the release; changes to the branch will have to be approved before they can be checked in. This is how some other large projects (e.g. Mozilla) work, and I hope it will help reduce the number of bugs introduced in releases at the last minute. Planned features for 2.2 The following features are already checked in on the head revision (for a more detailed account, see Misc/NEWS): - iterators (pep-0234) The following features are scheduled to go in; work is still ongoing in defining the exact appearance of the features: - generators (pep-0255) - unification of types and classes (pep-0252, pep-0253, pep-0254) The following features are under consideration: - a standard set API (implemented in Python for now) (pep-0218) - a 'directive' statement (pep-0244) - unifying long ints and plain ints (pep-0237) There needs to be more discussion of each of these before we can decide. Copyright This document has been placed in the public domain. Local Variables: mode: indented-text indent-tabs-mode: nil End: