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[python-committers] 3.2 -> 3.3 merge pending?

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Wed May 29 21:53:20 CEST 2013 
On Wed, 29 May 2013 21:41:58 +0200, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
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> On 29/05/13 16:41, R. David Murray wrote:
> > I asked about this on IRC and was told that 3.2 is now a
> > standalone branch like 2.7.  Security fixes will be applied by the
> > release manager only, and Georg doesn't see any point in null
> > merging the commits.
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> Could this be written somewhere?. For instance, how the release
> manager must be notified about a potential relevant changeset for
> his/her branch.

By making it a release blocker in the tracker.  (Once it is
public...I would imagine release managers have to be on the
security mailing list...though I don't know that for a fact.)

I imagine there's something in the devguide about security
branches, this info could be added there.

--David
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