[Python-Dev] state of the maintenance branches (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Thu Oct 19 18:58:10 CEST 2006

OK - 2.4.4 is done. With that, the release24-maint branch moves into dignified old age, where we get to mostly ignore it, yay! Unless you really feel like it, I don't think there's much point to making the effort to backport fixes to this branch. Any future releases from that branch will be of the serious security flaw only variety, and are almost certainly only going to have those critical patches applied.

Either this weekend or next week I'll cut a 2.3.6 off the release23-maint branch. As previously discussed, this will be a source-only release - I don't envisage making documentation packages or binaries for it. Although should we maybe have new doc packages with the newer version number, just to prevent confusion? Fred? What do you think? I don't think there's any need to do this for 2.3.6c1, but maybe for 2.3.6 final? For 2.3.6, it's just 2.3.5 plus the email fix and the PSF-2006-001 fix. As I feared, I've had a couple of people asking for a 2.3.6. Oh well. Only one person has (jokingly) suggested a new 2.2 release. That ain't going to happen :-)

I don't even want to think about 2.5.1 right now. I can't see us doing this before December at the earliest, and preferably early in 2007. As far as I can see so far, the generator+threads nasty that's popped up isn't going to affect so many people that it needs a rushed out 2.5.1 to cover it - although this may change as the problem and solution becomes better understood.

Anyway, all of the above is open to disagreement or other opinions - if you have them, let me know.

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