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[python-committers] Please don't commit to 3.2 branch anymore

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sat Mar 30 18:03:53 CET 2013 
On 03/30/2013 04:10 PM, Jesus Cea wrote:
> On 30/03/13 15:15, R. David Murray wrote:
>> This is the first time we've been in the situation of having a
>> security-only branch in Mercurial (other than 2.7, which is its own
>> head). So I don't believe we have articulated a procedure yet.
> 
> I am asking because the commit hook.
> 
> I expect patches will be few and far apart, so "somebody" could
> disable that hook just for committing those, when time comes. But I
> think would be interesting to actually think about it and document
> something now, even if we need to update it when we have real experience.
> 
> Something simple would be for the hook to refuse any commit in that
> branch UNLESS it is coming from the maintainer.

Security fixes will have to be coordinated with me anyway, so that is
not a problem here.  For example, whoever commits them can put them in
a clone on hg.python.org, and I will pull them into the main repo.

Georg
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