It’s like a Project Management car-wreck. I don’t know much about what happened, or who is at fault. I fear that some of the people involved are suffering, while other innocent bystanders are now wandering around bruised and confused. I feel badly for them. I don’t want to watch their nightmare… but I can’t look away.<\/p>\n
Let’s look at the timeline…<\/p>\n
16 August 2005: PyGame<\/a> 1.7.1 is released, a windowing library with support for Python<\/a> 2.4.<\/p>\n 19 September 2006: Python 2.5 is released after the usual beta period. PyGame users, such as myself, sit expectantly for either a PyGame 1.7.1 that it built for Python 2.5, or a PyGame 1.8 that supports it.<\/p>\n 3 November 2006: The PyGame developers announce that:<\/p>\n Following a period of beta, and RC releases Pygame 1.8 will be released at 2006\/12\/22 10:00:36.873456 AEST!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Look at that level of precision… seven weeks in advance… of effort that will be expended during the US Thanksgiving period… and delivered days before Christmas (so if you run just a day or two late, you quickly end up running several weeks late). Are your Project Manager-senses tingling yet?<\/p>\n 3 December 2006: I start getting more nervous as I start to hear buzz from the Python gurus<\/a> about yet another competing Python windowing library<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sometime 5-24 December 2006: The PyGame 1.8 announcement is quietly updated to say:<\/p>\n edit: we needed an extra few weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Look at that new level of precision – a last minute project delay for an unbounded period? Uh oh… <\/p>\n So, how long should I give them before I start learning how to do simple graphical applications in a different Python windowing tool?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A very brief examination of the PyGame 1.8 car-wreck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[81,376,50],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development","tag-python","tag-review","tag-whinge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}