Hi, I'd like to add some dates regarding 3.8 removal and 3.10 switch to the implementation timeline [1].
Unless I'm mistaken, CPython is following a yearly release cycle these days. I think it would make sense to also aim for a yearly cycle in Gentoo, i.e. roughly switch to the next minor version every year. Hence my proposal would be to: a. ASAP: send "please port your packages to py3.9" mail b. 2022-06-01: remove py3.8 target c. ASAP: stabilize Python 3.9 interpreter + start working towards unmasking python3_9 flag on stable d. 2022-06-01: switch the default to py3.10 In other news, there's a good chance that PyPy3 will catch up to 3.9 before we remove 3.8. WDYT? [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/Implementations#Implementation_support_timeline -- Best regards, Michał Górny
