[python-committers] Cutting 3.3 branch now. Why not?

[Hynek Schlawack]

> For exactly this reason.  We want to focus on fixing bugs for 3.3.  Having
> to commit to yet another branch at this time would be a distraction,
> as would having to pay attention to feature patches going in to default.
> If the active committers are working on bug fixes, then no features
> would be getting committed anyway, and the extra merge would just be
> pointlessly annoying.

+1 on that one, I’m really glad the current polishing is more or less
frictionless. Merging across branches is especially annoying when the
commit rates are fairly high like now.