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musiccomposition at gmail

Jul 30, 2008, 7:31 PM

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critical issues for 2.6 and 3.0

I just went through the disturbingly long list of 67 open issues with
a "critical" priority pinging and trying to get things moving. There
are ~55 now; I was able to close some, but others I promoted to
release blocker for beta 3. Shouldn't all criticals be resolved by the
final?

I've never been through a Python release before, but I find these
statistics rather worrying if we want to make the October release
date. It doesn't help that we are low on active core developers,
presumably because they are taking full advantage of their summer
vacations. :) (Speaking of which, I'm leaving this Saturday.)

Please focus getting fixes reviewed, checked in, and their issue's
closed so we can bring beta 3 out on time!

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Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1."
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brett at python

Jul 30, 2008, 7:51 PM

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Re: critical issues for 2.6 and 3.0 [In reply to]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> I just went through the disturbingly long list of 67 open issues with
> a "critical" priority pinging and trying to get things moving. There
> are ~55 now; I was able to close some, but others I promoted to
> release blocker for beta 3. Shouldn't all criticals be resolved by the
> final?
>

Probably, but at that point they will be promoated to release blocker
as necessary.

> I've never been through a Python release before, but I find these
> statistics rather worrying if we want to make the October release
> date.

If we don't make the release, then we don't make it. Plus this is one
of the more complicated releases that I have been through thanks to
the release of two simultaneous major revisions, so having a lot to do
is not a shock. But people tend to step up work when a beta release is
coming so when we get closer to b3 more work will probably land.

Another thing to keep in mind beyond the open issues is the code in
2.6 that is not 3.0 compatible when Python is run with -3. I just
finished running regrtest with -3 and have a text file listing all of
the code that has some warning thanks to -3. I will try to open an
issue with those files listed as some point soon, but I will hopefully
be able to plow through them rather quickly since most of them are
minor like dict.has_key(), etc.

-Brett
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martin at v

Jul 31, 2008, 1:35 PM

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Re: critical issues for 2.6 and 3.0 [In reply to]

> I've never been through a Python release before, but I find these
> statistics rather worrying if we want to make the October release
> date.

I don't worry. Every Python release had bugs, and there will be
2.6.1 and 3.0.1 releases.

The only sure way to resolve bugs is to revert features. If a certain
module is cause of too many serious bugs, it should be dropped from
the release (perhaps not from the source repository - just removed
from all build processes).

Regards,
Martin
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