On Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 12:00:53 PM UTC-7 Nils Bruin wrote: On Tuesday, 30 May 2023 at 11:13:27 UTC-7 tobia...@gmx.de wrote:
that we normally drop support for older versions right after this support window (i.e. also adapt the drop schedule https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html#drop-schedule). I've formulated an improved formulation for this policy at https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/35403#issuecomment-1566110884 which should hopefully clarify this point. (Dropping support means increasing `python_requires` and removing github tests for this old version, i.e. similar to https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/35404 which is modeled on the PR drooping Python 3.7.) Formulated like this it would seem to me we could needlessly reduce the platforms that sage builds on: this suggests that the "drop Python 3.*" PR would get merged simply because it's time: in theory we could end up with a release where the sole commit is the dropping of support (in practice development is way too active for this). Exactly, which is why I have opposed setting Tobias's PR to positive review. (Note that Volker's release scripts currently do not take dependencies or declared milestones into account.) I would expect that such a PR would only get merged as a dependency of some other PR (that makes a fix, enhancement, or upgrades some other component). Exactly, this has been our current practice. We create the drop ticket as a placeholder and then, when upgrades of packages are being considered by the volunteers who contribute to maintaining the Sage distribution, we use it as a dependency of those upgrade tickets. Making a good, balanced decision is then very easy with the facts gathered. This has worked well. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/54aac5b2-b4a9-49bb-993f-439218565576n%40googlegroups.com.
