[Python-Dev] PEP 407: New release cycle and introducing long-term support versions (original) (raw)

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 23:24:09 CET 2012

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Under the proposed scheme, there would be two kinds of feature versions (sometimes dubbed "minor versions", for example 3.2 or 3.3): normal feature versions and long-term support (LTS) versions. ... A new feature version would be released every X months. We tentatively propose X = 6 months.

LTS versions would be one out of N feature versions. We tentatively propose N = 4.

It sounds like every six months we would get a new feature version, with every fourth one an LTS release. That sounds great, but, unless I've misunderstood, there has been a strong desire to keep that number to one digit. It doesn't matter to me all that much. However, if there is such a limit, implied or explicit, it should be mentioned and factor into the PEP.

That aside, +1.

-eric

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