Re: Revisiting Python support for after Django 3.2 LTS

2021-02-02 Thread Carlton Gibson
Hi all. Thank you for all the discussion. tl;dr "It's Hard™" :) But we need to decide, so that we can merge Mariusz' PR and move on. I think we *don't* have a perfect new policy (yet). So let's bump that. There's no urgency to decide. *Possibly* we could support Python 3.7 just for Django 4.0

Re: First time contributor, requesting permission to work on #32340

2021-02-02 Thread Surya Banerjee
Hi Carlton, Thanks for the directions. I have posted my question on the issue tracker. Thanks, Surya On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 1:05 PM Carlton Gibson wrote: > Hi Surya. Welcome > > Do comment on the ticket. Thibauld and Tom should be able to give you more > specific advice. > I'm not sure if Thib

Re: Revisiting Python support for after Django 3.2 LTS

2021-02-02 Thread Ryan Hiebert
> On Feb 2, 2021, at 03:42, Carlton Gibson wrote: > > Possibly we could support Python 3.7 just for Django 4.0, as an exception, > leveraging the "typically" in the existing policy, and clearly stating what > we were doing. > > Can I ask for (limited) thoughts just on that smaller proposal?

Re: Revisiting Python support for after Django 3.2 LTS

2021-02-02 Thread Carlton Gibson
Hey Ryan, That is a good question. Do we take the X in an X.Y series in the SemVer way. I’ve always thought not — the difference between 2.2 and 3.0 or 3.2 and 4.0 isn’t really a Major version change™ — we just roll on the same regardless of the number (with slight wiggles for the deprecation poli

Re: Revisiting Python support for after Django 3.2 LTS

2021-02-02 Thread Ryan Hiebert
> On Feb 2, 2021, at 11:29 AM, Carlton Gibson wrote: > > That is a good question. Do we take the X in an X.Y series in the SemVer way. > I’ve always thought not When we switched the version scheme ahead of 2.0, we wanted it to roughly match SemVer. We’ve strategically weakened it in some pl