I guess what I'm saying is that for a version 2.x.y, x should behave as you describe while y should go up as often as a bug is discovered and fixed...
That means we either waste a lot more time doing releases, or the releases become a lot more shoddy, hardly more than a snapshot from CVS. Neither sounds attractive, sorry.
Right. So what we really should do instead, is this http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0251.html The important parts, imho: * "Small bug fixes and changes will occur up until the first beta release." * "A week before every alpha, beta or other release, we forked off a branch which became the release. Changes to the branch are limited to the release manager and his designated 'bots." Thats really the current problem. Changes happening just before the release. -- /Magnus