[Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x

[Barry Warsaw]

Another quick thought. What would people think about regular timed releases if python 2.7?  This is probably more a question for Benjamin but doing sonmight provide better predictability and "customer service" to our users. I might like to see monthly releases but even quarterly would probably be useful. Doing timed releases might also incentivize folks to fix more outstanding 2.7 bugs. 

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On Oct 29, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 10/29/2010 9:42 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> I don't see why we should not welcome a team of new developers who want
>> to continue working on the 2.x series.
> 
> Given the number of issues on the tracker, I think it would be great if there were some new 2.7-focused developers that would work on fixing 2.7-specific bugs and helping with fixes (including by backporting) to 2.7/3.x bugs.
> 
>> It's obvious that a large proportion of the existing python-dev'ers will
>> not participate in such a project, but why should we try to stop someone
>> else to work on it ?
> 
> Where is such a team? It is a moot point until they show up.
> 
> As to a possible successor to 2.7: this seems hardly worth discussing until 1) 2.7 has been out for at year and maybe more; 2) there actually are such new developers working on 2.7 maintenance; and 3) there actually is a proposal to respond to. If new features were limited to backports of features in 3.x, especially in the library, then I *personally* could see something being released as 'python 2.8'.
> 
> I will be surprised it these preconditions come about. I suspect that most 2.7 users and most *nix distributions would be happy to have a stable increasingly de-bugged 2.7 be Python 2 for several years.
> 
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> Terry Jan Reedy
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