[python-committers] Delaying 3.2 release

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> I'm delaying the 3.2 alpha1 release by one week; I don't have enough time
>> to sort through all the possible issues and get acquainted with the release
>> machinery this weekend.
>
> Should we perhaps delay the entire schedule by one month? A number of
> things that people want for 3.2 haven't happened yet. Not sure whether
> a month would help, of course. However, I wouldn't want to migrate to
> Mercurial between beta releases, for example. The release process
> probably needs several rounds to adjust to Mercurial, and we aren't even
> close to switching.
>

Unless some long-term release of some major OS or distro is about to
come out and was hoping to include 3.2 (and I don't think any are), I
see no harm in postponing. I know I won't mind as I have some
additions/deprecations in importlib that are landing in 3.2.