Bugfix releases (RE: profiler results for __getattr__, am I reading this correctly ? )

[Richard Jones]

On Thursday 18 October 2001 17:58, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> >>> "Tim Peters" wrote
> >
> > The bugfix release process is the topic of Aahz's PEP 6, who may have
> > believed that titling it "Bug Fix Releases" was enough clue <wink>:
>
> Ah, that cunning "hidden in plain sight" approach. Who'd have thought.
>
> It still doesn't cover the process of deciding what would go in the
> patch release... I know that I'd be happier upgrading to 2.1.2 than
> 2.2 in the next couple of months - and given the peasants-are-revolting
> sentiment of c.l.py at the moment, I doubt I'm the only one...
>
> How would this sound as a first cut at a what-goes-in-and-what-stays:
>
>    a) bugfixes.
>    b) no new modules, no new packages.
>    c) no new methods on classes, unless they're bugfixes.
>    d) if the bug fix relies on some 2.2-ism, then it's either rewritten,
>       or ignored and relnoted

Ack, just thought of e) Documentation bug fixes. Or are they covered in a)?


    Richard