[Python-Dev] Python 3.4: Cherry-picking into rc2 and final

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Mon Feb 17 04:09:50 CET 2014


For 3.4.0rc2 the commit to merge from issue20621 is 52ab9e1ff46a.


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20621> is significant enough to be
> resulting in a 3.3.5 release - can you make sure the 3.4 fix goes in?
> I'm not sure how to find the revision number that contains the fix to
> follow the process you outline above, so I'm just mentioning it here &
> on the issue to make sure it's not missed...
>
> Paul
>
> On 16 February 2014 23:25, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Right now we're in the "release candidate" phase of 3.4.  3.4.0 rc1 has
> been
> > released, and the next release will be rc2.
> >
> > You might think that anything you check in to the "default" branch in
> Python
> > trunk will go into 3.4.0 rc2, and after that ships, checkins would go
> into
> > 3.4.0 final.  Ho ho ho!  That's not true!  Instead, anything checked in
> to
> > "default" between my last revision for "rc1" (e64ae8b82672) and 3.4.0
> final
> > will by default go into 3.4.1.  Only fixes that I cherry-pick into my
> local
> > branch will go into 3.4.0 rc2 and final.  And my local branch will remain
> > private until 3.4.0 final ships!
> >
> > If you have a Terribly Important Fix That Must Go Into 3.4.0 rc2 or
> final,
> > please go to the issue tracker and create a new issue with the following
> > attributes:
> >
> > The title should start with "3.4 cherry-pick: " followed by the revision
> id
> > and a short summary
> >   example: "3.4 cherry-pick: b328f8ccbccf __getnewargs__ fix"
> > The version should be "Python 3.4"
> > The assignee should be "larry"
> > The priority should be "release blocker"
> > The comment should *also* contain the revision id (the tracker will turn
> it
> > into a link)
> >
> > I'm also working on automatically publishing the merged/unmerged revision
> > status to a web page.  You can see a mock-up here:
> >
> > http://www.midwinter.com/~larry/3.4.merge.status.html
> >
> > The page is marked "beta" because it doesn't have real data yet--I'm
> still
> > experimenting with my automation, so I haven't created the real 3.4 local
> > branch yet.  Again, just to be crystal-clear: the revisions marked
> "merged"
> > on that page are just experiments, they aren't actually merged for 3.4.
> > Once I'm ready for real merging, I'll remove the beta warning.
> >
> > (By the way: on that page, clicking on a revision takes you to the
> revision
> > web page.  Clicking on the first line of the comment expands it to show
> the
> > complete comment.)
> >
> >
> > Please use your best judgment before asking that a revision be
> cherry-picked
> > into 3.4.0.  Our goal in the release candidate phase is to stabilize
> Python,
> > and to do that we must stop changing it.  Only important interface
> changes,
> > new features, or bugfixes should be checked in now, and preferably they
> > should be low-risk.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > /arry
> >
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