<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Nick Coghlan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">What we have essentially found is that where we could basically get<br></div>
away with an 18 month update cycle for improved network security<br>
support (extended out to a few years by certain major platform<br>
vendors), that approach *isn't* working when it comes to putting a<br>
feature release into long term maintenance mode. I don't think the<br>
situation isn't critical yet, but it's getting close, and I think we<br>
need to deal with it within the 12 months (and preferably sooner than<br>
that).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This PEP as written applies to both Python 2.x and 3.x, but the two situations are very different. 3.x is on a ~18 month update cycle, so why isn't the status quo acceptable there? Python 2.x has less than 18 months of support left, so could it get by with a single exceptional release instead of a general relaxing of the rules? (if it were up to me, I'd call that release Python 2.8 instead of 2.7.7) If this PEP is mainly about a one-shot update to the security components of Python 2.x, I'd like to see an explicit list of what is in scope for the update.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Ben</div></div></div></div>