NEP 28 — A standard community policy for dropping support of old Python and NumPy versions

Folks,
This NEP is a proposing a standard policy for the community to determine when we age-out support for old versions of Python. This came out of in-person discussions at SciPy earlier in July and scattered discussion across github. This is being proposed by maintainers from Matplotlib, scikit-learn, IPython, Jupyter, yt, SciPy, NumPy, and scikit-image.
TL;DR:
We propose only supporting versions of CPython initially released in the preceding 42 months of a major or minor release of any of our projects.
Please see https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14086 and keep the discussion there as there are many interested parties (from the other projects) that may not be subscribed to the numpy mailing list.
Tom

Hi,
This is just a reminder for others like myself who have too limited a cognitive buffer: this NEP was renumbered and it's NEP 29 now https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14086/files (just to prevent possible confusion).
András
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:52 AM Thomas Caswell tcaswell@gmail.com wrote:
Folks,
This NEP is a proposing a standard policy for the community to determine when we age-out support for old versions of Python. This came out of in-person discussions at SciPy earlier in July and scattered discussion across github. This is being proposed by maintainers from Matplotlib, scikit-learn, IPython, Jupyter, yt, SciPy, NumPy, and scikit-image.
TL;DR:
We propose only supporting versions of CPython initially released in the preceding 42 months of a major or minor release of any of our projects.
Please see https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14086 and keep the discussion there as there are many interested parties (from the other projects) that may not be subscribed to the numpy mailing list.
Tom
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