[python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Wed Jan 8 02:43:19 CET 2014


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

>  On 01/07/2014 03:10 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:37:22PM -0800, Eli Bendersky wrote:
>
>  Just to be clear, this is exactly what I mean. I'm not saying AC is not
> worth it; I'm questioning the timing.
>
>  Agreed; let's try to avoid far-ranging sets of changes so late in the
> beta cycle.
>
> If we want to send 3.4 back to alpha and implement some form of
> string-formatting changes and Argument Clinic, that would be fine,
> though it might mean Ubuntu and other Linux distros might have to ship
> with 3.3 again because 3.4 wasn't done in time.
>
>
> I hadn't considered slipping the release, but that does seem like an
> entirely sane idea.  However, I'm not proposing slipping back to alpha so
> we can add the cause-celebre-of-the-week bytes formatting stuff, and we
> don't need to slip all the way back to alpha for Argument Clinic.  A third
> beta seems entirely reasonable though.  Let's try the derby for a couple of
> days and see how we feel.
>
>
+1
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