On 01/26/2014 08:07 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> wrote:


The first release candidate of Python 3.4 will be tagged in about two weeks.
We need to be completely done with the Derby by then.  And it's going to
take a while to review and iterate on the patches we've got.

Therefore: I'm going to stop accepting submissions for new patches in two
days.  Patches posted to the issue tracker on or after Wednesday Jan 29 at
12:00:01am will not be accepted.  If you have a patch you're still working
on, you have until then to get it in.

Why not delay rc1 by a week or two and get this work done?

We discussed that. The core developers, and Guido in particular, were against it. One good reason: if we slip Python 3.4 again we will miss shipping Python 3.4 final with Ubuntu 14.04. You can read the discussion in python-committers; it's under the subject "Status of the Derby, and request for another slip".

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2014-January/002977.html

/arry