[Python-Dev] New tests in stable versions (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Jul 21 21:20:59 CEST 2011

On 7/21/2011 2:58 AM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

I concur with Brett. Nothing good will come from backporting tests that aren't aimed at a specific bugfix.

They could catch reversions that otherwise would not be caught. This would mainly apply to 2.7. It would not be an issue for 3.2 if all fixes are forward ported to 3.3 and tested there (before pushing) where there are tests not in 3.2. If people fix in 3.2, test, commit, and push, and just assume OK in 3.3, the new test will not do any good until someone else runs them with the fix.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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