<div dir="ltr">The official guidelines on what it takes to add official support for a platform is <a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#supporting-platforms">https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#supporting-platforms</a>. Basically it's a core dev willing to sponsor and maintain the work, a buildbot, and implicitly at least a 5 year commitment.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 at 05:55 Antoine Pitrou <<a href="mailto:solipsis@pitrou.net">solipsis@pitrou.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 13:46:27 +0100<br>
Christian Heimes <<a href="mailto:christian@python.org" target="_blank">christian@python.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > This work would target the master branch (that is Python 3). I would<br>
> > be interested in hearing your thoughts on this idea.<br>
><br>
> In general your proposal sounds like a good idea. A new platform may<br>
> require a PEP, though.<br>
<br>
It would also require a maintainer and a maintenance promise for<br>
several years (5 or 10? I don't know). I doubt any other core<br>
developers are interested in/equipped for dealing with EDK2 issues,<br>
regressions and subtleties.<br>
<br>
> You can start now by submitting pull requests for the header fixes. Even<br>
> in the case we decide not to support EDK2, we make your life easier by<br>
> reducing the amount of extra patches.<br>
<br>
Agreed.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Antoine.<br>
<br>
<br>
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