Re: [Python-Dev] Code cleanups in stable branches?

On Nov 1, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Oct 31, 2011, at 06:23 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:

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I thought that patches that clean up code but don’t fix actual bugs were not done in stable branches. Has this changed?

I hope not. Sure, if they fix actual bugs, that's fine, but as MvL often points out, even innocent looking changes can break code *somewhere*. We don't lose by being conservative with our stable branches.

-Barry

I concur with Barry and MvL. Random code cleanups increase the risk of introducing new bugs. Raymond