[Python-3000] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008

[Barry Warsaw]

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This is a reminder that the LAST planned alpha releases of Python 2.6  
and 3.0 are scheduled for next Wednesday, 07-May-2008.  Please be  
diligent over the next week so that none of your changes break  
Python.  The stable buildbots look moderately okay, let's see what we  
can do about getting them all green:

http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/stable/

We have a few showstopper bugs, and I will be looking at these more  
carefully starting next week.

http://bugs.python.org/issue?@columns=title,id,activity,versions,status&@sort=activity&@filter=priority,status&@pagesize=50&@startwith=0&priority=1&status=1&@dispname=Showstoppers

Time is running short to get any new features into Python 2.6 and  
3.0.  The release after this one is scheduled to be the first beta  
release, at which time we will institute a feature freeze.  If your  
feature doesn't make it in by then, you'll have to wait until  
2.7/3.1.  If there is something that absolutely must go into 2.6/3.0  
be sure that there is a bug issue open for it and that the Priority is  
set to 'release blocker'.  I may reduce it to critical for the next  
alpha, but we'll review all the release blocker and critical issues  
for the first 2.6 and 3.0 beta releases.

Cheers,
- -Barry

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