[Python-Dev] Should I delay 3.5.3 and 3.4.6 by two weeks?

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 at 06:29 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 12/19/2016 12:26 AM, Larry Hastings wrote:
> >
> >
> > Python 3.6.0 final just slipped by two weeks.  I scheduled 3.5.3 and
> > 3.4.6 to ship about a month after 3.6.0 did, to "let the dust settle"
> > around the release.  I expect a flood of adoption of 3.6, and people
> > switching will find bugs, and maybe those bugs are in 3.5 or 3.4.  So it
> > just seemed sensible.
> >
> > 3.6 just slipped by two weeks.  So now there's less than two weeks
> > between 3.6.0 final shipping and tagging the release canddiates for
> > 3.5.3 and 3.4.6.  This isn't as much time as I'd like.
> >
> > If I had total freedom to do as I liked, I'd slip my releases by two
> > weeks to match 3.6.  But there might be people planning around 3.5.3 and
> > 3.4.6--like Guido was waiting for 3.5.3 for something iirc.
> >
> > So, if you have an opinion, please vote for one of these three options:
> >
> >   * Don't slip 3.5.3. and 3.4.6.
>
> I am mildly in favor of this.  There are already known bugs in 3.5 that
> will not get fixed, no matter how long you delay the final maintenance
> release.  There are even bugs left in 2.7 after 6 years of fixing.  In
> the meanwhile, it is a mild nuisance to have 3 3.x maintenance branches
> open.
>
> I don't know when Brett will move us to GIT and how that might impact
> the timing.
>

Slipping doesn't affect me yet as all the pieces are still not quite in
place. So a shift in release just shifts the blackout period for the week
prior to the 3.5.3 release.
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