Thank you, Larry and the whole release team, for putting so much
work into this !

On 01.10.2020 19:49, Larry Hastings wrote:
> 
> At last!  Python 3.5 has now officially reached its end-of-life.  Since there
> have been no checkins or PRs since I tagged 3.5.10, 3.5.10 will stand as the
> final release in the 3.5 series.
> 
> As with a similar announcement I wrote about eighteen months ago, I know we 
> can
> all look back fondly on Python 3.5.  3.5 added many new asynchronous I/O
> programming features, the "typing" module, and even a new operator ("@").  
> Plus
> many and varied quality-of-life improvements for the Python programmer, in 
> both
> the language, the library, the core implementation, and even the installers. 
> Python 3.5.0 was the best version of the best language at the time, and since
> then it's gotten even better!
> 
> My thanks to all the members of the Python 3.5 release team.  In alphabetical 
> order:
> 
>     Georg Brandl
> 
>     Julian Palard
> 
>     Ned Deily
> 
>     Steve Dower
> 
>     Terry Reedy
> 
> My thanks also to the Python infrastructure team.
> 
> 
> The end of Python 3.5 support also ends my tenure as a Python Release 
> Manager. 
> Congratulations, you survived me and my frequent mistakes!  (Special shouts 
> out
> to Ned and Benjamin for running around behind the scenes quietly cleaning up 
> my
> messes--and not even telling me most of the time.)  Rest assured that I leave
> you in /much/ better hands with the current crop of RMs: Ned, Łukasz, and 
> Pablo.
> 
> One amusing note.  During my tenure as a Python release manager, I had to deal
> with /three/ different revision control systems.  Although we'd switched 
> CPython
> itself to Mercurial  by the time 3.4 alpha 0 was released, there were still 
> many
> supporting repositories still on Subversion.  (I remember having to do
> Subversion branch merges as part of my 3.4 release work... what a pain.)  And 
> of
> course these days we're on Git (-hub).  This straddling of three different
> workflows certainly complicated the lives of us Release Managers.  So, my
> friends, please... make up your minds!  ;-)
> 
> 
> It's been my honor to serve you,
> 
> 
> //arry/
> 
> p.s. As of today, every supported version of Python supports f-strings.  The
> only remaining excuse for "we can't use f-strings" is no longer viable!
> 
> 
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