Re: What’s next?

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 02:08:50PM -0400, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> In the short term I'd like to merge the python optimisations. We discussed it 
> before release and thought it might be nice to merge them before c-u, from a 
> separate branch.

+1

Have you tested them at all yet? If so, and they don't seem to break
anything, maybe they could be squeezed onto the wip-ungrafting branch.

The 'ungrafting' jobset (based on the wip-ungrafting branch) entails a
complete rebuild of Python 2 and 3. If that branch requires another
iteration due to broken builds, and we are confident that the Python
optimisations won't break things, I'd say we could include them.

Otherwise, we could do a python-updates branch that includes these
optimizations, and updates to Python 3.8.10, along with any existing bug
fixes for Python 2. It would be completed more quickly than
core-updates.