It probably means that from January to April Benjamin will be too busy porting Dropbox to Python 3 to have time for Python 2 support.
Or possibly it means that until PyCon 2020, there will be only one core developer supporting Python 2, and it will be Benjamin. You choose. :-) On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 4:00 PM Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> 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? > > What does the "official EOL date" mean if there's a release in April? > > --Ned. > > On 9/9/19 9:29 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > Hi all, > > It's finally time to schedule the last releases in Python 2's life. > There will be two more releases of Python 2.7: Python 2.7.17 and Python > 2.7.18. > > > > Python 2.7.17 release candidate 1 will happen on October 5th followed by > the final release on October 19th. > > > > I'm going to time Python 2.7.18 to coincide with PyCon 2020 in April, so > attendees can enjoy some collective catharsis. We'll still say January 1st > is the official EOL date. > > > > Thanks to Sumana Harihareswara, there's now a FAQ about the Python 2 > sunset on the website: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/ > > > > Regards, > > Benjamin > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/APWHFYQDKNVYQAK3HZMBGQIZHAVRHCV2/ > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/TVIMZGRZQXDAXKARJBUEZJJ7YSTNWMKA/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him/his **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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