[Python-Dev] Maintaining old releases (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Aug 15 05:29:23 CEST 2008


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

On 2008-08-14 08:43, Martin v. L?wis wrote:

For example, let's project dates for closing 2.6 and 3.0 now, and add them to PEP 361.

My view is that they should be closed when 2.7 and 3.1 are released. Since we don't have a fixed release cycle, making the 2.(n-1) maintenance time frame depend on the 2.n release is not a reliable way of defining the 2.(n-1) lifetime. Instead, we should fix the dates based on the 2.(n-1) release date.

Why? As Brett pointed out, we simply don't have the infrastructure to maintain multiple releases -- if we force time-based maintenance, it won't work.

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