[python-committers] state of the 3.2 branch

[Benjamin Peterson]

2011/6/8 R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>:
> I am completely confused by the state of the 3.2 branch.  My understanding
> is that RC1 has been released, that RC2 is coming soon, and that Georg
> is releasing 3.2.1 from a separate clone so that we do not have to have
> a freeze in the main repo.  All that is fine, but the main repo NEWS
> file is headed by "What's New in Python 3.2.1 Release candidate 2?",
> yet there are clearly news items in that section that should not be
> going in to release candidate 2.  As an arbitrary example, take:
>
>    - Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of
>      an IOError if the file is closed.
>
> That seems to me to be clearly not a critical fix, and thus not
> appropriate for the RC stage.
>
> Is is that the NEWS section hasn't been updated?  Or, Georg, are you
> going to sort out the stuff you really put into RC2 from the other stuff
> after you release RC2?

See af715726d911 It looks like Georg has been merging the 3.2.1
release branch to the 3.2 branch and people are blindly adding to the
news section. That stuff should probably just be relocated.


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Regards,
Benjamin