[Python-3000] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008 (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri May 2 04:31:20 CEST 2008

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

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This is a reminder that the LAST planned alpha releases of Python 2.6 and 3.0 are scheduled for next Wednesday, 07-May-2008. Please be diligent over the next week so that none of your changes break Python. The stable buildbots look moderately okay, let's see what we can do about getting them all green: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/stable/ We have a few showstopper bugs, and I will be looking at these more carefully starting next week.

http://bugs.python.org/issue?@columns=title,id,activity,versions,status&@sort=activity&@filter=priority,status&@pagesize=50&@startwith=0&priority=1&status=1&@dispname=Showstoppers Time is running short to get any new features into Python 2.6 and 3.0. The release after this one is scheduled to be the first beta release, at which time we will institute a feature freeze. If your feature doesn't make it in by then, you'll have to wait until 2.7/3.1. If there is something that absolutely must go into 2.6/3.0 be sure that there is a bug issue open for it and that the Priority is set to 'release blocker'. I may reduce it to critical for the next alpha, but we'll review all the release blocker and critical issues for the first 2.6 and 3.0 beta releases.

I just closed the release blocker I created (the backwards-compatibility issue with warnings.showwarning() ). I would like to add a PendingDeprecationWarning (or stronger) to 2.6 for showwarning() implementations that don't support the optional 'line' argument. I guess the best way to do it in C code would be to see if PyFunction_GetDefaults() returns a tuple of length two (since showwarning() already has a single optional argument as it is).

Anyone have an issue with me doing this? Is PendingDeprecationWarning safe enough for 2.6? Or should this be a 3.0-only thing with a DeprecationWarning?

-Brett

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