[Python-Dev] Maintaining old releases

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Aug 13, 2008, at 10:29 AM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

> Why not migrate support for older releases to interested parties  
> outside of
> the regular developer team?  Presuming there is someone out there  
> with the
> interest in maintaining, say, Python 2.2, they could take over the  
> entire
> responsibility for making releases, continuing to use the Subversion
> repository if they like, releasing on their own schedule, in the  
> formats
> they deem appropriate.

This I agree with.  If nobody's motivated to do the work, then problem  
solved, it doesn't get done.

- -Barry

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