[Python-Dev] Python 3.5.1 plans

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Sun, 01 Nov 2015 10:51:05 -0800, Larry Hastings writes:
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>On 11/01/2015 09:10 AM, Laura Creighton wrote:
>> Put that on python.org as soon as possible.
>> even if you need to bump the python 3.5 numbering.
>> you get 3.5.1 for this, and this alone and everybody else gets to
>> wait for 3.5.2 and when Larry feels this is a good idea.
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>Well, let me say this.  I haven't been added to any apocalyptic 3.5 bugs 
>recently.  If Steve says he's not seeing novel bugs, and Laura says 
>she's seeing a steady trickle of people reporting the same bugs that 
>have already been fixed, then it seems like a good time to cut 3.5.1.
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>3.5 does have a single issue on the tracker marked as a "release blocker":
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>    smtplib.py AUTH LOGIN code messed up sending login and password data
>    since 3.5
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>    http://bugs.python.org/issue25446
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>R. David Murray set it to "release blocker", and I trust his judgment, 
>so 3.5.1 can't go out until this is fixed.  I'll engage with him on the 
>issue to see about when we can get a fix.
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>If I didn't have any release blockers, I'd schedule 3.5.1 for sometime 
>around three weeks from now.  And FYI I want to release 3.4.4 about two 
>weeks after that.
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>//arry/

Sounds wonderful to me.  Thank you Larry.

Laura