[Python-Dev] patch commit policies (was [issue4308] repr of httplib.IncompleteRead is stupid)

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 5, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> That aside, is it actually a python-wide policy to *forbid* patching
>> older releases where the patch isn't security-related?
>
> I set this policy for the releases I manage, namely 2.4 and 2.5.

This is a Python-wide policy.

When Python 2.7 is released, there will be one last 2.6.x bug fix  
release, and then it will go into security-only mode.  Similarly, when  
Python 3.1 is released, there will be one last 3.0.x release and it  
too will go into security-only mode.

Barry

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