On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:29:21 -0700, Ned Deily <[email protected]> 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
