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Howdy howdy. It's-a me, Larry, your friendly neighborhood Python
3.5 Release Manager.<br>
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Somewhere around 2 or 3pm tomorrow I expect to tag Python 3.5 beta
1. We'll actually release beta 1 on Sunday, once the binary
installers are all built.<br>
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Beta 1 is also feature-freeze, meaning no new features may be added
to 3.5 without my permission. Since it seems useful to have a
specific cutoff time, please stop adding features at ** 8pm Saturday
UTC **. (That's 1pm Pacific Daylight Time. It's also almost
exactly 24 hours from... now.)<br>
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I remind you that this time we're trying something new: we're going
to create the 3.5 branch when we release beta 1, allowing feature
development (for 3.6) to continue in trunk. At the point that I
check in and push beta 1, I'll also merge all checkins from trunk
back into the 3.5 branch. After that it'll be responsibility of the
person checking in to check their bug fixes in to the appropriate
place. So please keep in mind: once the 3.5 branch becomes
generally available on Sunday, the usual rules for a release branch
will apply: bug fixes for 3.5 should be checked in to the 3.5 branch
and get merged forward into trunk.<br>
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If you have new features you want to ship with Python 3.5, please
check them in as soon as possible!<br>
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Thank you for helping to make Python better,<br>
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<i>/arry</i><br>
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