On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl@gmx.net> wrote:

Am 13.02.2014 14:15, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:

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Hello,

So how is the RC phase supposed to work this time? Usually only critical patches get in, but I see a lot of commits in the last few days.

For 3.3.0 bugfixing continued on default, and I cherry-picked patches I considered critical enough into my release repo. The rest of the fixes were then merged after final and made their way into 3.3.1.

Larry has a similar plan for 3.4, and I think he will announce it here shortly.

That sounds like a good plan to me, and if that's going to be the plan for the foreseeable future I think the devguide needs bit of an update. In particular, with this plan the absolute requirement of having another core developer review a patch before commit can be relaxed somewhat, since the RM would be reviewing any post-RC patches in any case to decide if they should make Final.

Either way, some clarification would be good; I have a couple of issues that I'd like to commit, but I'm wary of doing so until current protocol is better defined.

-- Zach