[python-committers] cherry picking after rc

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/6/2014 1:15 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 6 October 2014 13:17, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
>>
>> I also didn't want to add another RC and slip the release--Matthias said he
>> wanted to ship 3.4.2 with Ubuntu 14.10, but with their release only about
>> two weeks away I didn't want to stress them out any more than necessary.
>> (One might say, "Ubuntu's release schedule is irrelevant, you should do
>> what's best for Python".  To that I'd reply, "They asked nicely, and nobody
>> else was asking for anything, so it seemed reasonable to accommodate them,
>> and this will get 3.4.2 into the hands of a lot of people".)
>
> I may be a touch (*cough*totally*cough*) biased, but attempting to
> accommodate redistributors when it doesn't place any excessive demands
> on the upstream release cycle sounds like a fine approach to me :)

I don't have that bias, and I think that finalizing an apparently good 
candidate -- and doing 3.4.3 in about 4 months, is the right thing 
anyway.  If there were a .rc2 released, it would not be guaranteed to be 
free of problems, and it would likely be followed by more 'nice to have' 
features.