On Nov 1, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Oct 31, 2011, at 06:23 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: > >> I thought that patches that clean up code but don’t fix actual bugs were >> not done in stable branches. Has this changed? > > I hope not. Sure, if they fix actual bugs, that's fine, but as MvL often > points out, even innocent looking changes can break code *somewhere*. We > don't lose by being conservative with our stable branches. > > -Barry
I concur with Barry and MvL. Random code cleanups increase the risk of introducing new bugs. Raymond _______________________________________________ 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
