[Python-Dev] Exact date of Python 2 EOL? (original) (raw)

Steve Dower steve.dower at python.org
Thu Mar 23 12:56:21 EDT 2017

On 23Mar2017 0937, Brian Curtin wrote:

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Mar 23, 2017, at 09:41 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Can we pick an official date? Benjamin should pick the date and update PEP 373. Not to start a bikeshed (calendarshed?), but how about 8 February 2020, or 2/8 as some in the US would write it?

Whatever date is it will have to have a release on it. There's no point in taking fixes after the final release, and I'd suggest that given it is the last one that we'll want a longer RC period with RM approval required for any changes after that. (I predict a slight chance of a last minute rush to get contribution made - possibly it's worth locking things down from the second-to-last release?)

All of which to say, there are more important concerns than choosing a cute date :) I've got no doubt that Benjamin will come up with a plan that leads to a stable and reliable release.

Cheers, Steve

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