[Python-Dev] The fate of 3.0.*

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 18:35, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Are we going to keep developing the 3.0 maintenance branch in
>> expectation of releasing 3.0.2 sometime or will we just focus our
>> efforts on 3.1?
>
> I almost said "of course we are", but then I realized that 3.1 is going to
> be very similar to 3.0.1 such that doing a final 3.0.x release probably is
> not going to be worth it. Lord knows I sure don't want to have to port a bug
> fix to *five* branches.

Amen. I can see two scenarios where we might release 3.0.2: (a) if we
find a really severe error in 3.0.1 (or perhaps a security problem);
(b) if 3.1 ends up getting delayed severely.

In case (a) happens it's okay if the 3.0 branch is left alone until
the time we need to make that one patch. The probability of (b) is
low, so let's worry about that when it happens, and let's try not to
make it happen. :-)

Congratulations all with the release!

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