[Python-Dev] Rules of a beta release?

[Brett Cannon]

[Guido van Rossum]

> > > It's a good idea to document that urllib (currently!) never does
> > > newline translation.  Given that URLs often point to binary files,
> > > that's probably a good idea!
> >
> > OK.  I will patch the docs and the docstrings (and backport it as
> > necessary) after you raise the commit moratorium.
>
> Consider it raised.  Python 2.3b1 is officially released!
>

Wonderful!

> > > > Thanks for fixing this, Guido.  I think I am going to do a
> > > > self-imposed "no checkins within 24 hours of a planned release"
> > > > rule.
> > >
> > > Yeah, me too. :-)
> >
> >  Perhaps this should be in the FAQ?
>
> But then releases would be so *boring*! :-)
>

I think Raymond should add something about this in his next bit of "Hard
Knocks"-type writing.  =)


Now that we are officially in a beta release, I want to clarify what the
ground rules are in terms of commits are.  Obviously no new functionality
such as new modules or built-ins.  But what about small features?
Specifically, since I have CVS commit I can finally apply my patch to
regrtest.py to allow the use of a skips.txt file listing tests to skip
(unless people don't want it anymore).  Now that is a new feature, but it
is minor *and* it is on an undocumented module (for now; I will get those
docs done before 2.3 final is reached).

Is this reasonable to commit now?  Anything else I should know so I don't
run a muck in CVS?  =)

-Brett