I find I work more effectively when I have deadlines to worry about (being a procrastinator by nature), so I thought I'd propose the following roadmap.

Mar 20: 3.3-dev   - snapshot for testing
Apr  1: 3.2.9     - bugfix release
May  1: 3.3-dev   - snapshot for testing
Jun 15: 3.3-dev   - snapshot for testing
Jul 15: 3.3       - feature freeze
Aug  1: 3.3.0     - first 3.3 beta
                  - branches/3.3.x created
                  - work on trunk resumes
                  - beta cycle proceeds independent of dev work
Sep 15: 3.3.y     - 3.3 final released (hopefully)

For the development snapshots I'd just roll a tarball from trunk and make a call to the community for testing help. Hopefully we'll catch new bugs and regressions early so that the actual beta cycle will be much shorter. There would be *no* freeze during the snapshot tests. Work on trunk can continue while we wait for the test feedback.

Graham suggested a number of issues when we were considering a 3.2.8 bugfix release. In the end 3.2.8 was a security release, but the rest of the list is still valid.

MODPYTHON-77
  The Simplified GIL Aquisition patches.
  Fixed in trunk, Jim will backport.

MODPYTHON-78
 Apache 2.2 patches.
 Fixed in trunk and backported to branches/3.2.x

MODPYTHON-94
 Support for optional mod_ssl functions on request object.
 Fixed in trunk, Jim will backport.

MODPYTHON-119
 DBM Session test patches.
 Fixed in trunk and backported to branches/3.2.x

MODPYTHON-122
 Bash 3.1.X configure patches.
 Fixed in trunk and backported to branches/3.2.x

MODPYTHON-131
  Make mutex directory configurable.
  Fixed in trunk, Jim will backport
  This fix depends on MODPYTHON-137.

New issues to consider for inclusion:

MODPYTHON-137
Add req.server.get_options() for obtain PythonOption values set at global level.
 Fixed in trunk.

MODPYTHON-145
  Make number of mutex locks configurable at apache startup
  Fixed in trunk.
  This issue touches the same code as MODPYTHON-131. Backporting
131 will be easier if this one is included.

Any other issues for a 3.2.9 release?
(This is where Mike L. should advocate for MODPYTHON-93 - Improved FieldStorage. ;) )

Jim

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