On 9/10/19 11:06 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019, at 15:54, Ned Batchelder wrote:
Maybe I'm not involved enough in the release process, but this seems
confusing to me. On the same day that the PSF put up a page about the
1/1/2020 date, we choose April 2020 as the last release? Why? I
thought the point was to save core devs efforts. Is this an unofficial
grace period? Will there be a public document that announces the April
date?
This mail is a public document.
The thinking is that ±2 months is rounding error in Python 2's lifetime, so why not move
it to a significant community time? (There was never going to be a release exactly on
January 1 simply because it's an inconvenient time of the year for "work".) I
suppose practically it amounts to a small grace period if core devs willing to merge 2.7
changes post 2020-01-01 can be found.
I'm not looking forward to answering questions from the public about why
the PSF is writing dire and specific warnings like "We have decided that
January 1, 2020, will be the day that we sunset Python 2," while the
core devs are planning a release four months after that. It won't help
Python's credibility, and may convince some people that they don't have
to take the date seriously..
--Ned.
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