[python-committers] cherry picking after rc

[Nick Coghlan]

On 6 October 2014 13:17, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
>
> I also didn't want to add another RC and slip the release--Matthias said he
> wanted to ship 3.4.2 with Ubuntu 14.10, but with their release only about
> two weeks away I didn't want to stress them out any more than necessary.
> (One might say, "Ubuntu's release schedule is irrelevant, you should do
> what's best for Python".  To that I'd reply, "They asked nicely, and nobody
> else was asking for anything, so it seemed reasonable to accommodate them,
> and this will get 3.4.2 into the hands of a lot of people".)

I may be a touch (*cough*totally*cough*) biased, but attempting to
accommodate redistributors when it doesn't place any excessive demands
on the upstream release cycle sounds like a fine approach to me :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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