[python-committers] Cutting Python 2.6

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Oct 3, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 3, 2008, at 12:34 AM, Anthony Baxter wrote:
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>>> It's happened a couple of times when I've made releases - the  
>>> process
>>> I had was to automate it as much as possible, then take the  
>>> generated
>>> tarball, unpack it freshly and run the full tests, and then check
>>> things like the README and all those other places. Making a  
>>> release is
>>> still a pretty fiddly process, and things slip through.
>>
>> Anthony's spot on.  Even with a release script and PEP 101, it's  
>> still
>> pretty labor intensive.  Of course, Python 2.7 and 3.1 still have no
>> official RM <wink> so if you want firsthand experience, the  
>> opportunity is
>> available.
>
> I would actually be interested in this. However, I still am quite
> inexperienced and gladly step aside for anyone who's been around
> longer.

We have our first victi^H^H^H^Holunteer!  :)

Benjamin, you've done some good work on the release.py script and are  
always available on IRC when I'm doing a release, so I think you'd be  
a good candidate.  Will you be at PyCon 2009?  It would be nice to  
cross-sign some gpg keys.

- -Barry

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