[python-committers] state of the 3.2 branch

[R. David Murray]

On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:46:25 +0200, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 06/09/11 17:42, R. David Murray wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:29:21 -0700, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Jun 8, 2011, at 18:43 , R. David Murray wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I am completely confused by the state of the 3.2 branch.  My understanding
> >> > is that RC1 has been released, that RC2 is coming soon, and that Georg
> >> > is releasing 3.2.1 from a separate clone so that we do not have to have
> >> > a freeze in the main repo.  All that is fine, but the main repo NEWS
> >> > file is headed by "What's New in Python 3.2.1 Release candidate 2?",
> >> > yet there are clearly news items in that section that should not be
> >> > going in to release candidate 2.  As an arbitrary example, take:
> >> > 
> >> >    - Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of
> >> >      an IOError if the file is closed.
> >> > 
> >> > That seems to me to be clearly not a critical fix, and thus not
> >> > appropriate for the RC stage.
> >> 
> >> Georg announced earlier that rc1 is dead so anything is allowed into rc2:
> >> 
> >> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.committers/1677
> > 
> > Ah, thank you.  I must have misunderstood that when I read it the first
> > time (I do have a vague memory of reading it).  I will just translate
> > "rc2" to "rc1" in my head and solder on :)
> > 
> > I still does make the NEWS history look weird, though.
> 
> Why? All the new stuff is under "new in 3.2.1rc2" which is correct.

Yeah, but that stuff isn't the kind of stuff you'd normally see
in an RC2.  That's what I meant by weird :).  It's not a big deal.

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