[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.3 (final) (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:02:32 -0400

Brett C. writes:

Woohoo! I know I would like to thank Barry, Tim, and Jeremy for all playing some part of release manager for this.

Yes, indeed!

When can we start doing 2.4 work on HEAD? I assume 2.3 will end up a maintenance branch that patches are to be back-ported to. If that is true, what is the tag name (I assume release23-maint)?

2.4 work can go on the head now as far as I'm concerned. 2.3 exists on a branch (release23-branch).

What happens to 2.2 work? Since 2.3 will now be the last stable release should we even worry about backporting to 2.2? I know it has been said that 2.2 would be a very stable version that would be around for a while, but I think Martin said that once 2.3 was out we would not really worry about 2.2 .

I'm inclined to be a little more conservative than that. I'd be glad to see a 2.2.4 release toward the end of the year to fix up any minor niggles, but we should be really careful about it. I know I have one memory leak patch I need to backport to the release22-maint branch.

Are there any preset goals of 2.4? The only one I know of off the top of my head is to prevent Guido from getting a pie to the face at OSCON 2004. =)

Actually, that might be something to see. ;-)

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation