[Python-Dev] Goals for patch selection for 2.1.2

[Aahz Maruch]

Martin von Loewis wrote:
> 
> I think the following milestones should appear:
> - deadline for contributing new patches
> - deadline for selecting and integrating CVS mainline patches
> - release of a release candidate
> - release

I can't remember whether it was Tim or Guido, but it has been suggested
that a true bugfix release shouldn't need a release candidate.  Me, I'm
always in favor of release candidates.


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(Back when I knew less about Unix than I do now, I was two weeks into a
new job, dealing with a customer who was complaining about being unable
to install the latest release of our software.  I tracked it down to a
syntax error in the install shell script -- proving that *NOBODY* from
QA had bothered to do an actual test install with the released CD.)
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