On 7 March 2018 at 16:28, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/07/2018 11:22 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: >> I saw today that pip's last release, 9.0.1, was in November 2016. >> https://pypi.org/project/pip/#history >> >> Since that release, 250+ PRs have been merged: >> https://github.com/pypa/pip/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+updated%3A%3E%3D2016-11-06 >> >> I see that a few issues >> https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22release+blocker%22 >> are marked as blocking the next release, but are they all blocking *any* >> next release (such as a 9.0.2 bugfix release), or would it be possible >> to release soon anyway, while working towards 10.0.0? Or are there >> backwards-incompatible changes in trunk? >> >> -Sumana > > Of course, a few minutes after posting this, I see Pradyun's roadmap for > releasing 10.0 in > https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4981#issuecomment-369495847 .
Yeah, we're pushing for a pip 10 release at the moment. I'm currently planning on doing that release, but getting the list of blockers sorted is the current task. I'm hoping to have some time this weekend to go through the list and see where we're up to and update that issue. At the moment,we don't have the infrastructure for doing bugfix releases - and in this specific situation, pulling out the "ready to go" parts of master to form an interim release isn't really practical, given the resources we have. Once pip 10 is out of the door, I'd like to investigate the possibility of having some sort of "maintenance branch" setup, but we're so thin on the ground at the moment (with Donald working on Warehouse and Xavier on leave of absence, it's basically just Pradyun and I, and I'm not managing to actually work on code much, just reviews and issue management) so I don't want to overload what little resource we have with admin. Paul
