[python-committers] Last-minute request: please backport bpo-33329 fix to 3.4 and 3.5

2019-03-01 Thread Larry Hastings
This bug in bpo-33329: https://bugs.python.org/issue33329 was fixed for 3.6+, but it also affects 3.4 and 3.5.  The bug is that with newer versions of glibc--which I'm pretty sure has shipped on all major Linux distros by now--the test suite may send signals that are invalid somehow.  As

Re: [python-committers] OpenMandriva and Fedora abandoned Discourse for development discussions

2019-03-01 Thread Carol Willing
One thing to keep in mind which is not a vote for/against mailing lists or Discourse is that older projects, like Linux, have historically communicated extensively with textual information. As JavaScript and other third party projects, which rely more heavily on visualizations and UI, have grown