[issue26165] devguide: table summarizing status of Python branches

[STINNER Victor]

New submission from STINNER Victor:

A frequent question is to get the status of a Python branch: is it still 
maintained? when does the support stop?

Attached patch adds a short table giving the current status of Python branches 
between 2.6 and 3.6 (default).

I sorted branches by their status, nor by their value, to show immediatly that 
2.7 is still at the top :-)

For the future end-of-life, I took the year of the last binary release and I 
added 5 years. Is that right?

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components: Devguide
files: branch_status.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 258696
nosy: ezio.melotti, haypo, willingc
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: devguide: table summarizing status of Python branches
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file41672/branch_status.patch

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[issue26165] devguide: table summarizing status of Python branches

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

The table is inspired by http://docs.openstack.org/releases/ which only gives 
the status, not the past or scheduled end-of-life date.

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[issue26165] devguide: table summarizing status of Python branches

[koobs]

koobs added the comment:

OH THANK YOU!

If possible, add Months or Quarter (Q1-4) for the EoL's, if those are defined, 
would be great.

We @ FreeBSD/Python would like to proactively (as early as possible) set 
DEPRECATED dates in our ports to ensure our users have ample time to upgrade to 
later versions, ideally in cadence with Python.

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[issue26165] devguide: table summarizing status of Python branches

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

> If possible, add Months or Quarter (Q1-4) for the EoL's, if those are 
> defined, would be great.

I added the estimated *day* of the end-of-line. But the release manager is free 
to adjust it.

> We @ FreeBSD/Python would like to proactively (as early as possible) set 
> DEPRECATED dates in our ports to ensure our users have ample time to upgrade 
> to later versions, ideally in cadence with Python.

You may start to deprecate as soon as a branch switches to security only fixes?

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[issue26165] devguide: table summarizing status of Python branches

[Roundup Robot]

Roundup Robot added the comment:

New changeset 75b95ada261f by Victor Stinner in branch 'default':
Add a table "Status of Python branches" to the front page
https://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/75b95ada261f

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[issue26165] devguide: table summarizing status of Python branches

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

I pushed a first version of the table. It can be adjusted later if needed.

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[issue26165] devguide: table summarizing status of Python branches

[STINNER Victor]

Changes by STINNER Victor :


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