[python-committers] Data corruption issue (C IO library)

[Georg Brandl]

Benjamin Peterson schrieb:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm just getting back from the nice trip to the Olympic Peninsula. I
> should be able to do a release sometime next week.

Just at the right time! :)

> In the meantime,
> could someone post the patch to the 3.1 download site? (We should add
> a note to the quick links section, too.)
> 
> 2009/8/6 Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net>:
>> We can either make a release with only that patch applied, or a release of
>> the full 3.1-maint branch, but the latter would need alphas and betas.
> 
> Why does that require doing alphas and betas? I believe the 2.5.x
> releases only had a RC and the 3.0.1 and 2.6.x had no preview releases
> before the final bugfix release.

OK, maybe alphas and betas were a bit too skeptical; but there needs to be
*something* that people can test before final.  Otherwise, another release
may be necessary just afterwards :|

Georg

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