[Python-Dev] What's New text on future maintenance (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri May 7 04:10:45 CEST 2010

"A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> writes:

FYI: I've just added the text below to the "What's New" document for 2.7. I wanted to describe how 2.7 will probably be maintained, but didn't want to write anything that sounded like an iron-clad guarantee of a maintenance timespan. Does this text seem like a reasonable set of statements?

If you give an actual time period, that's all that will actually be communicated to most people. This text will be read by a few people, and communicated as simply “six years” to everyone else. It doesn't matter how many caveats and qualifiers you surround that with; those will all be lost in transmission from person to person.

Would it make more sense to, instead of giving a time period, rather describe the circumstances that will determine when maintenance releases will cease for 2.7?

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