On 01/04/2011 13:32, Georg Brandl wrote:
Am 01.04.2011 13:57, schrieb Michael Foord:
On 01/04/2011 11:46, Georg Brandl wrote:
Am 31.03.2011 19:35, schrieb Éric Araujo:
I would like to apply this patch (or its moral equivalent) to all active,
affected branches of Python, meaning 2.5 through 2.7, and 3.1 through 3..3, as
soon as possible. Without this, it will be very difficult for anyone on
future Ubuntu or Debian releases to build Python. Since it's not a new
feature, but just a minor fix to the build process, I think it should be okay
to back port.
If I understand the policy correctly, 2.5 and 2.6 are not considered
active branches, so any doc, build or bug fixes are not acceptable.
I wouldn't say doc fixes are not acceptable, but they are rather pointless
since there won't be any more online docs or released docs for those versions.
In the case that docs are wrong for unmaintained (but still used)
versions of Python, is there any reason other than policy not to fix and
update online docs?
I think I was unclear: I'm not advocating doing doc fixes in security-only
branches; I'm just explaining why it wouldn't even make sense to do these
fixes.
I understood. I was suggesting we modify to allow doc changes that fix
errors and push updated docs *online* (not do fresh releases) and asking
why not do that (other than policy)?
I don't see any advantage in leaving erroneous docs online even if we
aren't going to do any new releases.
Michael
Let's not make life harder for the RMs of security-only branches...
Georg
_______________________________________________
Python-Dev mailing list
Python-Dev@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk
--
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/
May you do good and not evil
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
-- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
_______________________________________________
Python-Dev mailing list
Python-Dev@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
