[python-committers] Python 2.6.7rc2

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 21, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>Am 20.05.2011 23:37, schrieb Barry Warsaw:
>> I believe I've reconciled the Python 2.6 hg and svn branches.  I've committed
>> the changes to 2.6svn and working on the null merges for the 2.6hg branch.
>> I'll push the latter at some point soonish.  Anyway, this means that I will
>> cut 2.6.7rc2 today -- and actually announce it!
>> 
>> In the future, if you are going to apply patches to Python 2.6, please do so
>> in both the hg and svn branches, since all 2.6 releases will be done from
>> svn. 
>
>At the moment, this wouldn't be possible, since the svn is blocked from
>accepting commit unless they come from you or me.
>
>It would be better, IMO, if there was a single developer who would
>migrate changes to svn, or to have some semi-automatic procedure for
>that.

Yep.  It's rather a pain to determine what those changes are though if the
best you can do is a recursive diff on the two trees.

What do you think about my response to Guido, specifically: if you commit a
change to 2.6hg, be sure there's a release blocker issue open on 2.6 so that I
can easily find what needs to be cross-ported.

-Barry

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