On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
Over the next several hours I will be cutting Python 2.6. All lights and buildbots are go for final release tonight.
I have not yet heard from Trent about press releases, so we'll have to do those after the fact.
Press releases can lag behind, but I hope that this time the Windows and OSX installers will be released together with the main tarball.
I am also planning on releasing 3.0rc2 tonight, but only if there's time.
I'd recommend against this now. We need a few more days to implement the solution for undecodable filenames. There's a patch set by Victor Stinner that does most of what I'd like to have, but it needs 1-2 more rounds of review and refinements. I'd really like to hold up rc2 until this is in.
Final releases have much more work and the process is much less tested, so it may take me quite a while to get 2.6 final out.
The trunk and 3.0 branches are officially frozen until further notice. You /must/ contact me on irc if you need to make any changes.
Why freeze the 3.0 branch?
Remember: #python-dev on irc.freenode.net. Please include my nick 'barry' in any ping so I will notice.
Yee haw!
Amen! Thanks for your relentless efforts, Barry and others!!!
-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)