[Python-Dev] Committing a bug fix (original) (raw)

Martin Panter vadmium+py at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 01:05:29 CEST 2015

On 28 September 2015 at 22:31, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

. . . it may have merged in the wrong place, such as putting a things into the 3.5.1 section of 3.6 NEWS, which should not be there.

Since you mentioned this and I also noticed this, can I ask why the 3.5.1 section is there, if it isn’t meant to be? There are also other sections, going back to 3.4.0. They have been there for a while. Is it just that nobody removed it when it was inherited from 3.5 and 3.4? When I have merged bug fixes into the default 3.6 branch I have sometimes let the NEWS entries be automatically be merged into the 3.5.1 section, without updating the 3.6.0 section, after I noticed other people doing this.

Perhaps we should get rid of the old pre-3.6 sections (perhaps after adding any missing entries to the 3.6 section)? Otherwise I imagine some release manager might come along and chop them all out without adding anything to the 3.6 section.

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