[Python-Dev] Branches in which to fix the SSL tests

[Larry Hastings]

On 01/06/2016 10:06 PM, Martin Panter wrote:
> According to Larry
> <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-December/142566.html>,
> 3.4.4 was the last bug fix release for 3.4, so I assumed the 3.4
> branch should now be in security-fixes-only mode.

You assume correctly.

> However this branch
> still seems to get a lot of non-security action, for example the most
> recent bunch of changes were some work on the provisional “pathlib”
> module.

I haven't looked at the changes you mention (I'm on a trip) but... what 
am I to do?  Beyond tagging all future 3.4 releases from a repository 
only I have write access to and never pulling from hg.python.org, I 
don't really have any power to enforce the condition.  I'm left trusting 
the better judgment of the Python core dev community.

I feel like a parent who's caught his kid reading after bedtime using a 
flashlight under the covers.  I mean, no, that's not what you should be 
doing right now.  But fixing bugs in Python is hardly the worst thing in 
the world.


//arry/
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