[python-committers] How shall we conduct the Python 3.5 beta and rc periods? (Please vote!)

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Tue May 12 19:53:19 CEST 2015
Larry,

On 2015-05-12 1:04 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
> Workflow 1
> ==========
>
> When I ship beta 1, we create the 3.5 branch.  trunk become 3.6.
>
> When I ship rc 1, the 3.5 branch becomes 3.5.1.  I maintain a 
> publically visible repo /on bitbucket/ for 3.5.0, and we use bitbucket 
> "pull requests" for cherry-picks from 3.5.1 into 3.5.0.
>
> This gives us a pilot project to try out a web GUI for merging. It 
> makes my workflow easier, as I can push a button to accept 
> cherry-picks.  (If they don't apply cleanly I can tell the author to 
> go fix the conflict and resubmit it.)  The downside: it requires core 
> devs to have and use bitbucket accounts.


This makes a lot of sense. +1.

Yury


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