[python-committers] Re: Please avoid non-bugfix changes during the beta phase

2020-07-08 Thread Petr Viktorin
On 2020-07-07 21:35, Barry Warsaw wrote: It’s true that as releases get closer to final, more people will start exercising them. However, you really don’t have to wait. I maintain “official” Linux (Ubuntu) Docker images that contain all the latest releases (including alphas and betas), and t

[python-committers] Re: Please avoid non-bugfix changes during the beta phase

2020-07-08 Thread Steve Dower
On 07Jul2020 0321, Raymond Hettinger wrote: My two cents: I think this should be a little more liberal. At beta 1, freeze the addition of new features but continue to tweak the implementation with code clean-ups, additional tests, algorithmic improvements, and better docs. All of those things a