I would ask: what are the pros and cons of dropping support for python 3.5?
I think allowing users to easily use and install django based applications is more important than strictly follow a python version support policy. I think that if we drop support for python 3.5, which is the default python version on many linux platforms right now, we will make the life of our users and developers harder. I don't understand the reason for doing so, if we have to do it for a good reason, like a security issue, or because django has to take advantage of features that are available only from python 3.6 onwards, I would be in favour, but if we have to do it only because the policy says so, without any other advantage, I would amend the policy. My 2 cents. Thanks for your hard work maintaining django Federico On Monday, January 21, 2019 at 10:56:40 AM UTC-5, Tim Graham wrote: > > When deciding when to drop support for Python 2 in Django, there was > consensus to adopt this Python version support policy [0]: "Typically, we > will support a Python version up to and including the first Django LTS > release whose security support ends after security support for that version > of Python ends. For example, Python 3.3 security support ends September > 2017 and Django 1.8 LTS security support ends April 2018. Therefore Django > 1.8 is the last version to support Python 3.3." > > Since then, we didn't abide by this policy when dropping Python 3.4, > mainly because Debian stable still used Python 3.4 at the time and Claude > argued that some people like him would have difficulty contributing to > Django if they had to install another version of Python [1]. > > Based on the policy, it's time to drop support for Python 3.5 in the > master branch (Django 3.0) -- with Django 2.2 LTS supported until April > 2022 and Python 3.5 supported until September 2020). I created a ticket [2] > and PR [3] for dropping support for Python 3.5 [2], however, Claude > commented, "I'm not so enthusiast to drop Python 3.5 now (it is still the > default version in Debian stable). Couldn't this be done in Django 3.1 > instead?" > > Are you in favor of amending the Python support version policy to account > for the Python version in Debian stable? > > [0] > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/install/#what-python-version-can-i-use-with-django > [1] > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/4rbVKJYm8DI/TTh3i04pBQAJ > [2] https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30116 > [3] https://github.com/django/django/pull/10864 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/51dfc517-8b5a-4803-9f8d-daa1bf920e7b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
