[Python-Dev] Goals for patch selection for 2.1.2 (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:52:58 -0400

Martin von Loewis writes:

One open issue would be to come up with a release schedule. Should you restrict yourself to patches that also appear in 2.2 (perhaps in a back-ported fashion), or will you give a deadline for new patches

Since the point of a strictly bug-fix release is to fix bugs, I would not tie the 2.1.2 release to 2.2 in any way. The 2.2 developments remain a cheap source of bug fixes, though, so anything that was an actual bug fix should be considered for 2.1.2. If an alternate fix is needed because the codebase changed too much (which may be very possible this time), a completely new patch may be needed.

-Fred

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