[pypy-dev] Switching nightly builds from py3.6 to py3.7

[Ronan Lamy]

On 26/11/2020 18:16, Matti Picus wrote:
> Now that the re fixes are in for py3.7, I think our primary branch for 
> development should be py3.7, with backports to py3.6 if needed. PEP 494 
> for python 3.6 has that version in a security-fixes-only stage, so we 
> should adopt a similar strategy (although some bug-fixes may be needed, 
> especially around utf8 problems that are still cropping up).

I think it's a bad idea to reverse the direction of merges now. We still 
have quite a few fixes coming in for 3.6.

> Toward that end, I have updated the buildbot configuration to build 
> nightlies off the py3.7 branch instead of the py3.6 branch. So if you 
> wish to obtain a newer build of py3.6, you will need to manually trigger 
> the buildbots.

+1 though ideally we would just run both as nightlies.

> This does not change the status of the default branch.
> 
> 
> Please let me know if this was too fast and you feel we should continue 
> to use py3.6 as our primary branch for development.
> 
> 
> Matti
> 
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