[python-committers] Policy for committing to 2.7

[Benjamin Peterson]

2013/6/22 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com>:
> Yes, this makes sense too.
>
> In general there seems to be an agreement, so it would be great to document
> in some place. Many years will pass before we have another "special" release
> like Python 2.7, so it's worth spending an extra few minutes to have this
> written down. PEP 404 seems to be a reasonable place - any objections?
> Benjamin, what do you think?

PEP 373 is better given in that it deals with 2.7 and not a
non-existent 2.8 release. :)

I agree not every theoretically applicable bugfix needs to land in
2.7. If it's been broken for all of the 2.x series, it probably
doesn't need to be fixed now. (The most important bugs to fix are the
ones we introduced in the last bugfix release.) I'm also open to and
have been open to build system changes that keep Python compiling even
though they can break things (see cross-compiling). Even limited
not-build system "features" like retrofitting bsddb so it could
compile with a non-ancient version of bsddb can be acceptable.



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Regards,
Benjamin