[python-committers] Policy for committing to 2.7

[Anthony Baxter]

Maybe time it so when we *would* have released a 2.8 (18 months or so after
2.7) is when it goes into critical/security fixes only?
On Jun 22, 2013 11:50 PM, "Eli Bendersky" <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
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>> On Jun 22, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
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>> >I may be missing something, but do we have a policy of what we're
>> supposed
>> >to commit to the 2.7 branch at this point? I was under the impression
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>> >it's only bug fixes, documentation, and maybe tests. But it seems that
>> >there are developers who see it otherwise.
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>> Strongly agree.  One additional allowed category of changes are build
>> system
>> fixes, e.g. so that 2.7 can still be built on newer versions of operating
>> systems it already supports.
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> Yes, this makes sense too.
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> In general there seems to be an agreement, so it would be great to
> document in some place. Many years will pass before we have another
> "special" release like Python 2.7, so it's worth spending an extra few
> minutes to have this written down. PEP 404 seems to be a reasonable place -
> any objections? Benjamin, what do you think?
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> Eli
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