-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 13, 2008, at 1:53 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> Because there won't typically be sufficient testing and release >>> infrastructure to allow arbitrary bug fixes to be committed on the >>> branch. The buildbots are turned off, and nobody tests the release >>> candidate, no Windows binaries are provided - thus, chances are very >>> high that a bug fix release for some very old branch will be *worse* >>> than the previous release, rather than better. >> >> Second, I don't think this is true. People using those patch >> level releases will test and report bugs if they are introduced >> by such backports. > > They might be using releases, but they are *not* using the subversion > maintenance branches. Do you know anybody who regularly checks out the > 2.4 maintenance branch and tests it? > > So at best, people will only report bugs *after* the release was made, > meaning that there is a realistic chance that the release itself > breaks > things. Sure, but this is just as true for security fixes. The only thing the policy buys us is fewer /possibilities/ of breakage. I'm not discounting that as worthwhile, but qualitatively, there's no difference between non-security fixes and security fixes, as far as our Q/A process goes. > My problem is that this backporting is not systematic. It's arbitrary > whether patches get backported or not. Part of the problem is that > it is/was also unclear whether there ever will be another release made > out of 2.4. When 2.4.4 was released, Anthony announced, in > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069326.html > > "This will be the last planned release in the Python 2.4 series" > > So anybody committing to the 2.4 branch after that should have > expected > that the patches will never get released. There's a difference between never being released, and unavailable in the source repository. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSKNiEXEjvBPtnXfVAQIQgAP6A84mpv0JUkP4Z904TzoYDuqb3OtCNBMc wo+VGw00p9JJ0f4lWRmXSkimtLNe1xoOj0/qhYXBa64P7ti3oa9Wo4VHCK/N0IcW p8vXvhMG9sIhYrGb2cWDc4d/UA0kQqBPp3srtXwEumoWQbScH0zJHM7llX10unJ1 UfTST6Tof/s= =ilvh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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