Re: [python-committers] state of the 3.2 branch
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:29:21 -0700, Ned Deily wrote: > > On Jun 8, 2011, at 18:43 , R. David Murray wrote: > > > I am completely confused by the state of the 3.2 branch. My understanding > > is that RC1 has been released, that RC2 is coming soon, and that Georg > > is releasing 3.2.1 from a separate clone so that we do not have to have > > a freeze in the main repo. All that is fine, but the main repo NEWS > > file is headed by "What's New in Python 3.2.1 Release candidate 2?", > > yet there are clearly news items in that section that should not be > > going in to release candidate 2. As an arbitrary example, take: > > > >- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of > > an IOError if the file is closed. > > > > That seems to me to be clearly not a critical fix, and thus not > > appropriate for the RC stage. > > Georg announced earlier that rc1 is dead so anything is allowed into rc2: > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.committers/1677 Ah, thank you. I must have misunderstood that when I read it the first time (I do have a vague memory of reading it). I will just translate "rc2" to "rc1" in my head and solder on :) I still does make the NEWS history look weird, though. -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
Re: [python-committers] state of the 3.2 branch
On 06/09/11 17:42, R. David Murray wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:29:21 -0700, Ned Deily wrote: >> >> On Jun 8, 2011, at 18:43 , R. David Murray wrote: >> >> > I am completely confused by the state of the 3.2 branch. My understanding >> > is that RC1 has been released, that RC2 is coming soon, and that Georg >> > is releasing 3.2.1 from a separate clone so that we do not have to have >> > a freeze in the main repo. All that is fine, but the main repo NEWS >> > file is headed by "What's New in Python 3.2.1 Release candidate 2?", >> > yet there are clearly news items in that section that should not be >> > going in to release candidate 2. As an arbitrary example, take: >> > >> >- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of >> > an IOError if the file is closed. >> > >> > That seems to me to be clearly not a critical fix, and thus not >> > appropriate for the RC stage. >> >> Georg announced earlier that rc1 is dead so anything is allowed into rc2: >> >> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.committers/1677 > > Ah, thank you. I must have misunderstood that when I read it the first > time (I do have a vague memory of reading it). I will just translate > "rc2" to "rc1" in my head and solder on :) > > I still does make the NEWS history look weird, though. Why? All the new stuff is under "new in 3.2.1rc2" which is correct. Georg ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
Re: [python-committers] state of the 3.2 branch
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:46:25 +0200, Georg Brandl wrote: > On 06/09/11 17:42, R. David Murray wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:29:21 -0700, Ned Deily wrote: > >> > >> On Jun 8, 2011, at 18:43 , R. David Murray wrote: > >> > >> > I am completely confused by the state of the 3.2 branch. My > >> > understanding > >> > is that RC1 has been released, that RC2 is coming soon, and that Georg > >> > is releasing 3.2.1 from a separate clone so that we do not have to have > >> > a freeze in the main repo. All that is fine, but the main repo NEWS > >> > file is headed by "What's New in Python 3.2.1 Release candidate 2?", > >> > yet there are clearly news items in that section that should not be > >> > going in to release candidate 2. As an arbitrary example, take: > >> > > >> >- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of > >> > an IOError if the file is closed. > >> > > >> > That seems to me to be clearly not a critical fix, and thus not > >> > appropriate for the RC stage. > >> > >> Georg announced earlier that rc1 is dead so anything is allowed into rc2: > >> > >> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.committers/1677 > > > > Ah, thank you. I must have misunderstood that when I read it the first > > time (I do have a vague memory of reading it). I will just translate > > "rc2" to "rc1" in my head and solder on :) > > > > I still does make the NEWS history look weird, though. > > Why? All the new stuff is under "new in 3.2.1rc2" which is correct. Yeah, but that stuff isn't the kind of stuff you'd normally see in an RC2. That's what I meant by weird :). It's not a big deal. -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
