[Python-Dev] Python 2.3 release schedule update (original) (raw)

Brett C. drifty@alum.berkeley.edu
Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:26:07 -0700

Barry Warsaw wrote:

Here is the updated plan for the Python 2.3 release. Remember that we have to release by August 1st in order to meet Apple's plans for Panther. I think we're very close, so this doesn't seem like an unreasonable milestone to meet.

The plan is to release 2.3rc1 on July 17, 2003. I'll be out of town, so Jeremy will do this release, with the usual help from Fred and Tim. If we find that an rc2 is necessary, I will make that release on July 24, 2003, with a final release on July 31, 2003.

So, I am going to be out of town for my younger brother's wedding starting Sunday and won't be back until July 21. During that time I will have no Net.

I will obviously do what I can between now and Sunday to help. But in case I can't get everything done, there are only three things assigned to me that if I can't solve in time I would appreciate someone closing for me.

One is http://www.python.org/sf/762934 which is a patch for the detection of time.tzset . It makes it more stringent by adding a check in the code just like the one in the regression test that keeps failing on various platforms. I have a comment on what needs to be changed, but they are all syntactic. The reason I have not applied it already is that it makes the detection pickier and thus will change what platforms get tzset compared to b2 and thus I am not sure how to proceed. I was also waiting for someone to apply the patch to see if it solves their bug they haven't yet so I am not holding my breath for a response.

Another is http://www.python.org/sf/763708 which is a failing test for macostools. Jack has said that I am basically the only person he has found who has the failure consistently. I am going to do my darndest to solve this before I leave but I have zero experience with any of the MacPython code so if anyone else out there is getting a failure please speak up.

And the last one is http://www.python.org/sf/762963 which is a patch for Modules/timemodule.c that normalizes the timezone since there seems to be a loss in info because of the way the code drops the GMT offset. The patch is very trivial but there is a suggestion about autoconf that I have no experience with and was going to research.

My priority is the macostools bug, then the tzset one, and then the timemodule.c . Hopefully I will get to all of them but as Sunday approaches I am becoming less and less sure.

-Brett