[python-committers] state of the 3.2 branch

[Georg Brandl]

On 06/09/11 17:42, R. David Murray wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:29:21 -0700, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 8, 2011, at 18:43 , R. David Murray wrote:
>> 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Georg announced earlier that rc1 is dead so anything is allowed into rc2:
>> 
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.committers/1677
> 
> Ah, thank you.  I must have misunderstood that when I read it the first
> time (I do have a vague memory of reading it).  I will just translate
> "rc2" to "rc1" in my head and solder on :)
> 
> I still does make the NEWS history look weird, though.

Why? All the new stuff is under "new in 3.2.1rc2" which is correct.

Georg