[Python-Dev] Freeze exception for http://bugs.python.org/issue23661 ?

[Robert Collins]

On 14 July 2015 at 14:25, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:01:25 +1200, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>> So unittest.mock regressed during 3.5, and I found out when I released
>> the mock backport.
>>
>> The regression is pretty shallow - I've applied the fix to 3.6, its a
>> one-liner and comes with a patch.
>>
>> Whats the process for getting this into 3.5? Its likely to affect a
>> lot of folk using mock (pretty much every OpenStack project got git
>> with it when I released mock 1.1).
>
> 3.5 hasn't been released yet.  The patch ideally would have gone into
> 3.5 first, then been merged to 3.6.  As it is, you'll apply it to
> 3.5, and then do a null merge to 3.6.  It will get released in the
> next 3.5 beta.

What I'm unclear on is the approval process for doing ^.

-Rob

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