[Python-Dev] [python-committers] How shall we conduct the Python 3.5 beta and rc periods? (Please vote!)

[Larry Hastings]

On 05/12/2015 11:21 AM, Ned Deily wrote:
> I like the idea of experimentally trying the push workflow but, if we are all doing our jobs right, there should be very few changes going in after rc1 so most committers won't need to push anything to the 3.5.0rc repo and, if for some reason they aren't able to use Bitbucket, someone could do it for them.

For 3.4, I had an amazing number of cherry-picked revisions.  By the end 
it was... 72? over 100?  I'm no longer even sure.

Granted, 3.4 had the new module asyncio, and I got a deluge of 
cherry-pick requests just for that one module.  I permitted 'em because 
a) they wanted it to be ready for prime time when 3.4 shipped, b) there 
was no installed base, and c) a healthy percentage of those changes were 
doc-only.  (But if Victor tries that again during the 3.5 betas, he may 
have another thing coming!)

BTW, this workload was exacerbated by my foolish desire to keep the 
revision DAG nice and clean.  So I was actually starting over from 
scratch and redoing all the cherry-picking every couple of days, just so 
I could get all the cherry-picked revisions in strict chronological 
order.  By the end I had evolved a pretty elaborate guided-process 
automation script to do all the cherry-picking, which you can see here 
if you're curious:

    https://hg.python.org/release/file/b7529318e7cc/3.4/threefourtool.py

I have since given up this foolish desire.  I'll be happy to have a nice 
grubby revision DAG if it means I can spend more time on the internet 
cruising for funny cat videos.


In short, as release manager, I'm pretty stoked by the idea of pressing 
a big shiny button on a website exactly once when I accept a cherry-pick 
request.


//arry/
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