On 16 December 2014 at 16:03, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Ben Finney <ben+python <at> benfinney.id.au> writes: >> >> > Rather, the claim is that *if* one's code base doesn't migrate to >> > Python 3, it will be decreasingly supported by the PSF and the >> > Python community at large. >> >> The PSF doesn't support any versions of Python. We have effectively no >> involvement in the development of Python the language, or CPython. We >> certainly don't care what version of Python you use. > > Okay, I was under the impression that the entity blessing Python > releases as “official” is the PSF. What is that entity, then?
The PSF controls the trademark, but its the comparatively informal collective known as python-dev (ultimately helmed by Guido) that makes the technical decisions. To the degree with which the latter body is formally defined by anything, it's defined by PEP 1. > Whatever entity is the one which makes “this is an official release of > Python the language”, and “support for Python version A.B will end on > YYYY-MM-DD”, that's the entity I meant. That would be the release managers for the respective CPython releases (in collaboration with the rest of python-dev). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
