[Python-Dev] Official version support statement (original) (raw)
Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sat May 12 00:10:42 CEST 2007
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On May 10, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
This strikes me as a bit over-officious (the 'officially' adds nothing to me except a bit of stuffiness).
Worse, it seems wrong and hence, to me, misleading. The current de facto policy is that when a new major release comes out, there is a final minor, bugfix release of the previous major version. Thus, 2.5 is being supported while 2.6 is being worked on. As I understand it, there are no more plans to touch 2.4 than 2.3 and so on. So the current message is: "If you want a 2.5 bug fixed, find it, report it, and help get it fixed now before 2.6 is released." I am aware that if a trustworthy person or persons were to backport some substantial numbers of fixes from 2.5 to 2.4, greenlight the test suite on several systems, cut release candidates, and repond to reports, the file would appear on the official Python site. But currently, as far as I know, this 'support' is as empty as the Official Help-Yourself Plate of Donated Cookies on my kitchen table.
I'm happy to document whatever we decide the policy is, but I think
we should decide and produce an official statement as such. It helps
users and vendors to know what they can count on us for and what they
might be on their own for. It's also not that big of a deal if we
amend the policy later because we have volunteer release managers for
earlier versions.
- -Barry
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