[python-committers] Updated schedule for Python 3.4

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/17/2014 6:27 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> On 17 Jan 2014 12:03, "Kristján Valur Jónsson" <kristjan at ccpgames.com
> <mailto:kristjan at ccpgames.com>> wrote:
> > And while I completely understand that core developers enjoy working
> > in 3 much more, it was decided to not accept any improvements for a +2.7
> > version even from those that would do so voluntarily.  This could have
> > be done without making any commitment to release a 2.8 at any point.

At least some of us would have loved to have someone dedicated to 
developing 2.7-only patches, backporting 3.3 (currently) maintenance 
patches to 2.7, and watching 2.7 buildbots after either type were 
pushed. No one ever volunteered.

Guido has suggested that our future 2.7 work focus on keeping 2.7 
building on the latest OSes rather than on bugfixes per se. For either 
goal, volunteers (whether paid by someone else or not) would still be 
helpful.

> Doing that on the core infrastructure requires core developer *time* in
> order to review the patches.

Indeed, we need to become more efficient just to adequately support 3.x.

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Terry Jan Reedy