[python-committers] Pace of change for Python 3.x

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jan 25, 2017, at 07:45 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote:

>Channeling Nick, I'd say that LTS support should come from commercial third
>parties, such as OS vendors. I agree with Antoine: it's not something we want
>to impose on the core devs. How much fun is 2.7 maintenance?

Which effectively happens anyway, although to varying degrees of activity.  If
an OS vendor releases a version of Python in their LTS, that's also a
commitment to support that for the length of LTS (Python usually being within
in the sphere of LTS supported packages, e.g. not everything in Ubuntu is
guaranteed support for 5 years of an LTS, just 'main' packages).

Cheers,
-Barry