<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Steven D'Aprano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@pearwood.info" target="_blank">steve@pearwood.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If Python 4 is a conservative release, I don't see any reason to bump<br>
the major version number until after Python 3.9.</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>and why even then?</div><div style> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Perhaps we need a long-term schedule?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>why not: </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
3.5: August 2015<br>
3.6: February 2017<br>
3.7: August 2018<br>
3.8: February 2020<br>
3.9: August 2021</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">3.10: February 2023 <br></blockquote><div style>3.11 August 2023</div><div style>3.12 February 2024</div>
<div style>....<br></div><div style><br></div><div style>version numbering is not decimal -- a bump to 4.0 should mean _something_</div><div style><br></div><div style>(Though from the above, we've got a few years before we need to worry about that!)</div>
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