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

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 22:49:06 CEST 2009 
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:01 PM, "Martin v. Löwis"<martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> [Brett]
>> 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.

Speaking as one of the people who occasionally remembers to backport
to 3.0 (though clearly I failed with r69846), it wouldn't bother me at all
if there were no 3.0.2.  I can't speak for any of the other backporters, of
course.

I'm not really sure who 3.0.2 would be useful for.

Mark
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