[python-committers] Cutting Python 2.6

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Of course, Anthony is in a different time zone, so when he created
>> the tag in his evening, I had all day, and the binaries would still
>> be available when he got up the next morning.
>
> That's a good point - if Barry is on the US west coast somewhere, it
> actually works out to about a 17 or 18 hour time advantage for those  
> of
> us in eastern Australia (depending on daylight saving).

I'm US/Eastern, but it's not that different. :)

> FWIW, I'd personally be fine with the trunk being frozen a day early  
> if
> it was necessary to get the tags and binaries all ready on the day of
> release - just so long as it was mentioned in the release PEP.

IIUC, the critical bottleneck is tagging the tree, so the RM needs to  
make it far enough through the PEP to get to that point.  Of course  
that does mean freezing the tree, and I don't think it's too difficult  
to do that.

- -Barry

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