[python-committers] state of the 3.2 branch

[Steve Holden]

"Blindly" never sounds good. Just sayin'.

regards
 Steve

On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

> 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
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