[python-committers] Python 2.6.7rc2

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> I believe I've reconciled the Python 2.6 hg and svn branches.  I've committed
> the changes to 2.6svn and working on the null merges for the 2.6hg branch.
> I'll push the latter at some point soonish.  Anyway, this means that I will
> cut 2.6.7rc2 today -- and actually announce it!

I hope you did copy the SimpleHTTPServer.py security fix that I just
commented on in the tracker.

> In the future, if you are going to apply patches to Python 2.6, please do so
> in both the hg and svn branches, since all 2.6 releases will be done from
> svn.  If you're unsure or don't feel comfortable about doing that, please send
> me the diff and I'll apply it to 2.6svn.  Or create/mark a bug as release
> blocker on 2.6 and attach the patch.

I'm not very happy with this requirement to do parallel checkins in hg
and svn. IMO everyone except for the release managers should be able
to live in the happy illusion that we've migrated to hg completely.

Of course I'm fine with having very restrictive policies about
checkins to hg branches for old versions where the releases are done
from svn. The more restricted the better. But requiring individual
developers to maintain parallel svn and hg trees is going too far.

> Thanks.  I probably don't need to say, no commits to the 2.6svn branch for now
> please.

Happy releasing!

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