Okay, now that we're heard from the other side, and I lacking a concrete reason to delay the release, I'm putting 2.7.13 back at the original dates.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016, at 06:34, Matthias Klose wrote: > same here. > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch shows the final Debian release > freeze for > 2016-02-05, which would be a bit close for a 2.7.13 release. > > On 29.11.2016 15:12, Steve Dower wrote: > > I would much rather keep it in December, as I've already made scheduling > > decisions around the planned release date and there are fixes in 2.7.13 > > that I was expecting to be available by the end of the year. One month is > > highly impactful for me. > > > > Is this schedule change going to remove the month from 2.7.14? Or are we > > slipping all the rest of the releases (apart from the very last one at the > > end of 2019, presumably)? I too would like to know the intended use of the > > extra time. > > > > Top-posted from my Windows Phone > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "Benjamin Peterson" <benja...@python.org> > > Sent: 11/29/2016 0:04 > > To: "Raymond Hettinger" <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com>; "Serhiy Storchaka" > > <storch...@gmail.com> > > Cc: "Python-Dev@Python. Org" <python-dev@python.org> > > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7.13 release dates > > > > Okay, by popular demand, 2.7.13 now happens in January. > > > > I'm curious what people are planning to do to 2.7 with the extra 5 > > weeks. The 2.7 branch is a place to put occasional conservative bug > > fixes, which we aggregate and release every 6 months. It shouldn't > > really need special attention or become less stable depending on the > > release stage of Python 3. > > > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016, at 20:50, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > >> > >>> On Nov 28, 2016, at 10:36 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 28.11.16 09:06, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > >>>> I've have just updated PEP 373 to say that Python 2.7.13 release > >>>> candidate 1 will be released on December 3. The final will follow two > >>>> weeks later on December 17. If there are delays in the process, the > >>>> final will likely to pushed into January. > >>> > >>> Could it be delayed until 3.6.0 released? I paused fixing non-critical > >>> and non-documentation bugs while 3.6 in pre-release stage and this could > >>> include bugs that affect 2.7. > >>> > >>> In additional, we always receive increased number of bug reports in the > >>> first one or two weeks after releasing new Python version. Some of these > >>> reports are about regressions introduced by bugfixes. If delay bugfix > >>> releases after new version release, we could fix regressions caused by > >>> backported bugfixes and make bugfix releases more reliable. > >> > >> +1 on delaying 2.7.13 for a bit. As long as it doesn't muck up > >> Benjamin's schedule, the extra time would be helpful (Python 3.6.0 got > >> all the focus recently). > >> > >> > >> Raymond > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Python-Dev mailing list > >> Python-Dev@python.org > >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > >> Unsubscribe: > >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/benjamin%40python.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-Dev mailing list > > Python-Dev@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > > Unsubscribe: > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/steve.dower%40python.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-Dev mailing list > > Python-Dev@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > > Unsubscribe: > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/doko%40ubuntu.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/benjamin%40python.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
