On Jul 06, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >On 6 July 2016 at 03:44, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > >> Projecting ahead, it probably means 3.7 in mid-2018, which is after the >> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release, so we'll only do one major transition before the >> next LTS. From my perspective, that feels about right. > >Likewise - 24 months is a bit too slow in getting features out, 12 >months expands the community version support matrix too much, while 18 >months means that even folks supporting 5* year old LTS Linux releases >will typically only be a couple of releases behind the latest version.
Cool. Not that there aren't other distros and OSes involved, but having at least this much alignment is a good sign. I should also note that while Debian has a release-when-ready approach, Python 3.6 alpha 2-ish is available in Debian experimental for those who like the bleeding edge. Cheers, -Barry
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