[python-committers] Is 3.1 open?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le mercredi 17 mars 2010 à 23:02 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit :
> My expectation is that the release process won't change in this respect
> after the switch to Mercurial. We will continue to freeze the
> maintenance branch for releases, because everything else is too tedious
> for the release manager.
> 
> E.g. let's assume the proposal would be to create a clone of the
> repository for the release branch: the time it takes to create a clone
> is too large to make it acceptable for the release manager to wait for
> that to complete.

Too large? It should take a couple of minutes at most.
By the way, the "official" mirror doesn't seem to work here:

hg clone -v http://hg.python.org/cpython/
destination directory: cpython
requesting all changes
abandon : HTTP Error 414: Request-URI Too Large