On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello everyone, > > I am going to try to release the last planned beta of 2.6 and 3.0 this > Wednesday. Looking at the stable buildbots and showstopper bugs indicates > some work to do between now and then. Here are the showstoppers, along with > my recommendations. > > 1878 class attribute cache failure (regression) > - - Medium priority > - - Guido, there are some design choices that need your decision. I'd like to > fix this for beta 3 if it's going to be fixed at all, because I suspect the > changes will be too disruptive once we reach release candidates. > > 2394 [Py3k] Finish the memoryview object implementation > - - High priority > - - This one is serious enough to hold up the release. I really do not think > we > should be finishing this implementation in the rc phase.
How finished is finished? I see Antoine has implemented a little more of it. > > 1179 [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module > - - High priority > - - This will block final release and I think it needs to be fixed for this > beta. I've never used imageop, but I'll see if I can review the patch. > > 3131 2to3 can't find fixes_dir > - - Medium priority > - - I'm willing to defer this to the release candidates, but it will > definitely > block the release candidates. This is pretty simple. There are patches that can be applied, but I think 2to3 requires a little refactoring. I suppose that can be done after the beta, though. > > 3402 test_nis is hanging on Solaris > - - Medium priority > - - I suggest disabling this test and adding a note to the release notes. If > nobody comes forward to fix it for the final release, tough. > > 3352 Deficiencies in multiprocessing/threading API > - - Medium priority > - - This one is getting some love, so I'm confident this will get fixed before > beta 3. Jesse said he could have it done today. > > As for the buildbots, they're not looking so good. It looks like the trunk > has various failures in multiprocessing (hopefully fixed soon) and bsddb3. > Also some crashes in test_anydbm. Hmm. > > 3.0 is looking better but there's a weird error in test_sys and > test_threading. > > - -Barry > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIqj4v2YZpQepbvXERAolaAJ4uydGlv5wP2/SrZt4HzROkWfQUeACcDyoJ > 7DZW8MgxYKQMedhj7wJywDo= > =oJk1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/musiccomposition%40gmail.com > -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1." _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
