[python-committers] [PSF-Members] Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified

[Georg Brandl]

Am 02.02.2011 17:47, schrieb Barry Warsaw:
> On Feb 02, 2011, at 01:31 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
> 
>>One issue it raises is the difficulties caused by freezing the trunk for
>>releases. Instead they advocate creating the release branch at the point of
>>the release candidate instead of freezing trunk.  There are issues I
>>currently *can't* work on because trunk is frozen and would personally prefer
>>to see us use the branch-on-release-candidate process.
> 
> This is one of the primary problems solved by a dvcs.

Exactly.  This is why I didn't do it that way it during the 3.2 releases; I was
always waiting for the hg switch to happen, and until then I thought it best
not to change the process.

Georg