[Python-Dev] Re: Timeline for 3.5.8

2019-09-19 Thread Larry Hastings
3.5.8 final is kind of in limbo right now.  I had planned to release it early next week, however a regression has come up, tracked here: https://bugs.python.org/issue38216 At the moment this is a Release Blocker for 3.5.8, and therefore I can't release it.  Either we have to check in a fi

[Python-Dev] Re: The Python 2 death march

2019-09-19 Thread Brett Cannon
Chris Barker wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:39 PM Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: > > I agree. The thread title is a bit extreme. There > > will be a long > > twilight. > > Metaphorically that is correct, but at > > the same time there are > > things like https://pythonclock.org

[Python-Dev] Re: The Python 2 death march

2019-09-19 Thread Brett Cannon
Kyle Stanley wrote: > Benjamin, what are you thoughts on usage of the "needs backport to 2.7" > label? For most of the PRs I've reviewed I tend to avoid adding it myself, > but I've seen it used periodically. It seems to be used rather infrequently > ( > https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=is

[Python-Dev] Re: May God bless and keep Python 2 ... far away from us!

2019-09-19 Thread Paul Moore
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 17:34, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Generally, when people ask questions like this, I struggle, > > Yup. But I think the above is a good first cut. Agreed, it's a great summary of what "support stops" means. What I was trying to say was more that I'm not quite sure wher

[Python-Dev] May God bless and keep Python 2 ... far away from us!

2019-09-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Paul Moore writes: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 18:52, Chris Barker via Python-Dev > wrote: > > it would be good to be clear what EXACTLY "support stops" means. It means patches and PRs submitted after that date will almost certainly be dropped on the floor (and definitely will be after Benjamin t

[Python-Dev] Re: The Python 2 death march

2019-09-19 Thread Paul Moore
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 18:52, Chris Barker via Python-Dev wrote: > it would be good to be clear what EXACTLY "support stops" means. Generally, when people ask questions like this, I struggle, because it's not altogether clear to me what they think they mean in the first place by the "support" tha