[python-committers] state of the 3.2 branch

[Ned Deily]

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

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