Maybe time it so when we *would* have released a 2.8 (18 months or so after 2.7) is when it goes into critical/security fixes only? On Jun 22, 2013 11:50 PM, "Eli Bendersky" <eliben@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
On Jun 22, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
I may be missing something, but do we have a policy of what we're supposed to commit to the 2.7 branch at this point? I was under the impression that it's only bug fixes, documentation, and maybe tests. But it seems that there are developers who see it otherwise.
Strongly agree. One additional allowed category of changes are build system fixes, e.g. so that 2.7 can still be built on newer versions of operating systems it already supports.
Yes, this makes sense too.
In general there seems to be an agreement, so it would be great to document in some place. Many years will pass before we have another "special" release like Python 2.7, so it's worth spending an extra few minutes to have this written down. PEP 404 seems to be a reasonable place - any objections? Benjamin, what do you think?
Eli
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