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[python-committers] Why r69846 is not merged to "release26-maint"?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Jul 2 21:01:35 CEST 2009 
>     The particulars of the revision control system don't matter as much
>     as the discipline of teaching people to commit fixes. Right now, we
>     have 2.6.x, 3.0.x and 3.1.x. 
> 
> 
> If I remember correctly I believe we decided at the language summit that
> 3.0 is just dead now that 3.1 is out and we shouldn't even bother with
> another point release since 3.1 followed 3.0 so closely and didn't
> introduce any new syntax or tweak semantics.

Unfortunately, that decision was never communicated to the committers,
or, for that matter, to people present at the language summit :-(

So people have continued to merge to 3.0. I think they deserve a 3.0.2
release.

Regards,
Martin
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