Update: I’m receiving my laptop back tomorrow (Tuesday), so I decided to push the release of 3.9.0rc1 to then as it will be much easier for me to make properly.
- Ł > On 7 Aug 2020, at 11:30, Łukasz Langa <luk...@langa.pl> wrote: > > Entering the release candidate phase is an exciting and necessary step > towards releasing a production-grade 3.9.0. > > At this stage stability is of utmost importance. That's why the development > process described in our Dev Guide specifies that "a branch preparing for an > RC release can only have bugfixes applied that have been reviewed by other > core developers". See more at > https://devguide.python.org/devcycle/#release-candidate-rc > > Note that due to the new PEP 602-compliant release calendar we are planning > to have two release candidates: the first this coming Monday, August 10th, > and the second on September 14th. As a reminder: expanding the RC phase was > done to help operating system distributors include the latest release of > Python in their own Autumn releases. To make it work, we need approach the > release candidates with as much care as we will put into 3.9.0 itself. > > Lastly, and this is a little embarrassing to admit, my laptop is being > serviced by Apple at the moment due to a swollen battery. I'm ready to make > the release without it should it not return by Monday. However, in case it > turns out to be impossible, I'll let you know in a separate e-mail. > > -- > Best regards, > Łukasz Langa
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