[python-committers] Re: Currently working on the release of Python 3.8.0rc1

2019-09-30 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
Hello Łukasz, I consider this one critical enough to get into 3.8: https://bugs.python.org/issue38319 Long story short: shutil.copyfile() and socket.sendfile() are broken on 32-bit platforms for files >= 2GiB. shutil.copyfile() was modified by me in the 3.8 cycle so the bug only affects 3.8 and 3.9

[python-committers] Re: Steering Council Election Timeline

2019-09-30 Thread Brett Cannon
The steering council also proposes that no changes be made to PEP 13 between Nov 1 and Dec 15. ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/m

[python-committers] Steering Council Election Timeline

2019-09-30 Thread Ewa Jodlowska
Hi folks - Per PEP 13, a new Steering Council will be voted in after each feature release. As Victor has pointed out, 3.8 is scheduled for 2019-10-21 so we should start talking about the election. The Steering Council discussed this and the timeline proposed for the vote is as follows: * The nom

[python-committers] Re: Currently working on the release of Python 3.8.0rc1

2019-09-30 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/30/2019 3:48 AM, Łukasz Langa wrote: To help our chances, please avoid any source-related activity on the 3.8 branch from now until the release of 3.8.0. Yes, that also counts for bug fixes unless they are critical. (Yeah, it might be a bit annoying but nobody wants to be the person who i

[python-committers] Re: Currently working on the release of Python 3.8.0rc1

2019-09-30 Thread Łukasz Langa
> On 30 Sep 2019, at 16:09, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > I've filed https://bugs.python.org/issue38326 as a release blocker, as > I don't think we should be cutting RCs when changes have been made to > a PEP-approved API without any pre-merge design discussion. Nick, Victor, as co-authors of said PE

[python-committers] Re: Currently working on the release of Python 3.8.0rc1

2019-09-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 17:48, Łukasz Langa wrote: > > Team, > amazing job on getting us back on track over the weekend. > > Thank you > All release blockers and deferred release blockers solved. And there was > relatively little additional activity on the branch -- as expected at this > point! T

[python-committers] Currently working on the release of Python 3.8.0rc1

2019-09-30 Thread Łukasz Langa
Team, amazing job on getting us back on track over the weekend. Thank you All release blockers and deferred release blockers solved. And there was relatively little additional activity on the branch -- as expected at this point! Thank you for this, it will help get the release candidate out on t