[Python-Dev] The Argument Clinic Derby is drawing to a close

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
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> The first release candidate of Python 3.4 will be tagged in about two weeks.
> We need to be completely done with the Derby by then.  And it's going to
> take a while to review and iterate on the patches we've got.
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> Therefore: I'm going to stop accepting submissions for new patches in two
> days.  Patches posted to the issue tracker on or after Wednesday Jan 29 at
> 12:00:01am will not be accepted.  If you have a patch you're still working
> on, you have until then to get it in.

Why not delay rc1 by a week or two and get this work done?