[Python-Dev] What to do with languishing patches?

[Paul Moore]

On 18 July 2010 20:57, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>
> We already have "posponed" and "remind" resolutions, but these are
> exclusive of "accepted".   I think there should be a clear way to mark
> the issue "accepted and would be applied if X.Y was out already."
> Chances are one of the resolution labels already has such meaning, but
> in this case it should be more prominently documented as such.
>
> This is what branches are for.
> When the X.Y release cycle starts, there should be a branch for X.Y.  Any
> "would be applied" patches can simply be applied to trunk without
> interrupting anything; the X.Y release branch can be merged back into trunk
> as necessary.

Agreed. If that isn't already the recommended workflow under
Mercurial, I'd suggest making it so. (I can imagine that under
Subversion, where branching and merging is more awkward, it might have
been deemed not worth doing).

Paul.