Hi everyone,
This is the last friendly reminder from the release management team that Python 3.10 feature freeze is a week away (Monday, 3 May 2021).
Some important things to have in mind:
* We have some release blockers that must be resolved before the release is done:
If you want to help making sure that the release is on time, help us resolving those blockers. You can also search the issues in
* Please, don't wait until the last moment (Sunday) to merge PRs into master. This is because if many changes accumulate into a time window and
problems are detected, is much more difficult to locate the problematic changes among the rest. If there are any problems with your commits, you
also would have the risk of having your changes reverted to unblock the release without any time window to merge them again before feature freeze.
Please, also be aware of the following:
* No new features or improvements should be merged after the feature freeze. From the devguide (
https://devguide.python.org/devcycle/#beta) :
> After a first beta release is published, no new features are accepted. Only bug fixes and improvements to documentation and tests can now be committed.
> This is when core developers should concentrate on the task of fixing regressions and other new issues filed by users who have downloaded the alpha and beta releases.
> Being in beta can be viewed much like being in RC but without the extra overhead of needing commit reviews.