Responses inline below. On 13 Nov 2017, 8:31 AM +1100, Stefan van der Walt <stefanv@berkeley.edu>, wrote:

It looks like we have general support for the notion to do one more Python 2.7 release, and to then switch to Python >= 3.5.

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As far as I recall, Egor volunteered to be release manager---thank you!

I recall this too. =)

 I think we can hold off a bit on 0.14: our last release was in September, and there are a few PRs in the pipeline near completion. How about we split off the 0.14.x branch beginning of February?

Feb! That seems excessive? I don’t think our bug fix backport releases really count as releases.

Since we're going to be backporting a lot of patches, should I ask Matthias Bussonier to activate

https://github.com/MeeseeksBox/MeeseeksDev

I’m a fan of this idea.