[Python-Dev] Official version support statement

[Barry Warsaw]

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On May 10, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> "The Python Software Foundation officially supports the current
>> stable major release and one prior major release.  Currently, Python
>> 2.5 and 2.4 are officially supported.
>
> If you take "officially supported" to mean "there will be further  
> bugfix
> releases", then no: 2.4 is not anymore officially supported. Only 2.5
> is officially supported. There may, of course, be security patches
> released for 2.4 if there is a need.

Is this draft any better?

"The Python Software Foundation officially supports the current  
stable major release of Python.  By "supports" we mean that the PSF  
will produce bug fix releases of this version, currently Python 2.5.   
We may release patches for earlier versions if necessary, such as to  
fix security problems, but we generally do not make releases of such  
unsupported versions.  Patch releases of earlier Python versions may  
be made available through third parties, including OS vendors."

- -Barry

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