[Python-Dev] 3.1.2 / 2.6.5 maintenance releases? (original) (raw)

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Sun Jan 17 19:01:37 CET 2010

In article <4B53135A.7060104 at gmail.com>, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Ned Deily <nad acm.org> writes: >> I've recently seen a couple of references to 3.1.2 go by in >> checkins which made me wonder whether dates have been proposed yet >> for updates to either 3.1 or 2.6. I don't recall seeing any and I >> didn't see any references in the PEPs. Some advance warning would >> be nice. > There are a couple of release blockers right now. Once they are fixed > or deferred, I think it would be nice to have a 3.1.2. Why do you > need "some advance warning" though?

Advance warning does allow interested users that would consider upgrading to schedule time for testing before the maintenance release comes out. This is particularly useful in helping to make a 1-week RC period effective in picking up issues that might otherwise lead to a brown paper bag release to fix major issues that slipped through our own automated test coverage.

That. and resource contention: there are always potential fixes in the pipeline that could or should be bumped in priority if one knows there is a code cutoff approaching.

-- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org

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