[Python-Dev] Devguide: Add a table summarizing status of Python branches (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Jan 20 13:39:58 EST 2016

On 1/20/2016 12:40 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Hi,

I proposed a patch for the devguide to give the current status of all Python branches: active, bugfix, security only, end-of-line, with their end-of-life when applicable (past date or scheduled date) http://bugs.python.org/issue26165 What do you think? Does it look correct?

I thought end-of-life was 5 years after initial release, not 5 years after last bugfix. That would put eol for 3.4 in Feb 2019, I believe.

We will have to update this table each time that the status of a branch change. Hopefully, it's not a common event, so it will not require a lot of work for release managers :-)

I believe there is some text describing current releases somewhere that also needs to be changed. The release pep or scripts should have a reminder in the sections about the transitions.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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