[Python-3000] No rc2 tonight

[Barry Warsaw]

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I was supposed to release 3.0rc2 last night, but events caught up with  
me.  In going through the release blockers tonight, I do not think we  
are ready to release.  Here are the issues that need addressing:

Showstoppers:

3775 Update RELNOTES file
   - Don't worry about this one
3626 python3.0 interpreter on Cygwin ignores all arguments
   - This one appears to have an approved patch, but I do not have  
Cygwin to
     verify.  I happy if someone who does can verify and then Amaury  
should be
     free to apply the patch.
3723 Py_NewInterpreter does not work
   - This one seems serious and in need of attention.  Can someone  
please
     take a look at this issue?
3799 Byte/string inconsistencies between different dbm modules
   - This one also seems serious, and Guido bumped this to a release  
blocker so
     that it would be looked at before rc2.  We'll, here we are at rc2!
1210 imaplib does not run under Python 3
3727 poplib module broken by str to unicode conversion
   - These both have patches that need review
3574 compile() cannot decode Latin-1 source encodings
   - Brett is approved to land this one

Deferred

I deferred these but I would really like to get them fixed before rc2.

3664 Pickler.dump from a badly initialized Pickler segfaults
   - This one needs a proper patch with a test
3714 nntplib module broken by str to unicode conversion
   - This issue seems pretty far from resolution

If these issues can be resolved or deferred, I will try again to make  
a release tomorrow (Friday) night.  Otherwise, rc2 may have to wait  
until after November 1st.

Cheers,
- -Barry

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