[Python-ideas] Proposal to change Python version release cycle

[Barry Warsaw]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> The first ever major backwards incompatibility release switch we
> had in Python after the great renaming of the C APIs between
> Python 1.1 and 1.2 (which was only visible to C extensions and
> relatively easy to fix using a compatibility header file),
> was the transition from Python 2.x to Python 3.x.

Fond memories of some of my first contributions to Python:

http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/03/great-or-grand-renaming.html

Cheers,
-Barry