[Python-Dev] Draft PEP: Maintenance of Python Releases

[Terry Reedy]

""Martin v. Löwis"" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message 
news:464764C9.8090707 at v.loewis.de...
|> I don't understand the point of a "security release" made up to a year
| > after commit, especially in view of the first quoted paragraph.

A security release is presumably a response to a serious problem.

| I think we would need to restrict the total number of releases
| made per year. The one-year limit may be debatable, and immediate
| releases might be possible, as long as there is some provision
| that releases are not made at a too-high rate.

I would agree, but...
has there been more that the one security release that I know about?

tjr