On 10 Sep 2013 01:32, "Benjamin Peterson" <benjamin@python.org> wrote:
>
> Well, it's important for the release manager to make sure what the
> script is doing is sane. :)

Sure, preparing out of tree is fine and sensible. But we should either freeze the tree or update the NEWS headers immediately, otherwise we're going to have updates going into the wrong section.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> 2013/9/9 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>:
> >
> > On 9 Sep 2013 22:15, "larry.hastings" <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6b211a0c8042
> >> changeset:   85645:6b211a0c8042
> >> user:        Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>
> >> date:        Mon Sep 09 21:08:52 2013 +0900
> >> summary:
> >>   Post-3.4.0a2-release fixups.
> >>
> >> files:
> >>   Include/patchlevel.h |   2 +-
> >>   Misc/NEWS            |  14 +++++++++++++-
> >>   2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
> >> --- a/Include/patchlevel.h
> >> +++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
> >> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
> >>  #define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL      2
> >>
> >>  /* Version as a string */
> >> -#define PY_VERSION             "3.4.0a2"
> >> +#define PY_VERSION             "3.4.0a2+"
> >>  /*--end constants--*/
> >>
> >>  /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
> >> diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
> >> --- a/Misc/NEWS
> >> +++ b/Misc/NEWS
> >> @@ -2,10 +2,22 @@
> >>  Python News
> >>  +++++++++++
> >>
> >> +What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 3?
> >> +===================================
> >> +
> >> +Projected Release date: 2013-09-29
> >> +
> >> +Core and Builtins
> >> +-----------------
> >> +
> >> +Library
> >> +-------
> >> +
> >> +
> >
> > I had already pushed alpha 3 entries in NEWS, so something seems to have
> > gone wrong here.
> >
> > Perhaps, if RMs are preparing the release out of tree, we could get the NEWS
> > file headings on default updated immediately after the last included commit?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
> >
> >>  What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 2?
> >>  ===================================
> >>
> >> -Projected Release date: 2013-09-08
> >> +Release date: 2013-09-09
> >>
> >>  Core and Builtins
> >>  -----------------
> >>
> >> --
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> Benjamin