Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] 3.7.2rc1 and 3.6.8rc1 cutoffs ahead, last 3.6.x bugfix release!

2018-12-29 Thread Petr Viktorin
On 12/23/18 2:08 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On Thu., 20 Dec. 2018, 3:46 am Brett Cannon wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 06:01, Victor Stinner mailto:vstin...@redhat.com>> wrote: For example, supporting a version means to have a working CI (Travis CI,

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] 3.7.2rc1 and 3.6.8rc1 cutoffs ahead, last 3.6.x bugfix release!

2018-12-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Thu., 20 Dec. 2018, 3:46 am Brett Cannon > On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 06:01, Victor Stinner wrote: > >> >> > >> For example, supporting a version means to >> have a working CI (Travis CI, AppVeyor, VSTS, buildbots). I would >> suggest to only support a very few platforms for the LTS. I propose to

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] 3.7.2rc1 and 3.6.8rc1 cutoffs ahead, last 3.6.x bugfix release!

2018-12-19 Thread Gregory P. Smith
Ned - and any release manager in this situation in the future - has a default valid answer to this request: No. If we're ever going to do an "EL" or "LTS" Python, that should be decided and agreed upon *long before the end of its existing planned maintenance cycle* instead of right as it is

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] 3.7.2rc1 and 3.6.8rc1 cutoffs ahead, last 3.6.x bugfix release!

2018-12-19 Thread Brett Cannon
[Dropping python-dev so we don't end up swamping the python-committers admins -- i.e. me :) -- with posts held for moderation] On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 06:01, Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > I am working in the Red Hat "Python-maint" team which is maintaining > Python 3.6 as the main Python

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] 3.7.2rc1 and 3.6.8rc1 cutoffs ahead, last 3.6.x bugfix release!

2018-12-19 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
19.12.18 16:01, Victor Stinner пише: RHEL 7 is based on Python 2.7.5 which has been released in 2013 (5 years ago) and there are 150 patches on top of it: it means that around 30 patches are added per year. Unlikely the patch rate was constant. I suppose that more patches were created at

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] 3.7.2rc1 and 3.6.8rc1 cutoffs ahead, last 3.6.x bugfix release!

2018-12-19 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, I am working in the Red Hat "Python-maint" team which is maintaining Python 3.6 as the main Python interpreter in RHEL 8, which will likely be supported for at least 10 years. And we have been supporting Python 2.7 in RHEL 7. So obviously, being able to benefit of the upstream effort and

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] 3.7.2rc1 and 3.6.8rc1 cutoffs ahead, last 3.6.x bugfix release!

2018-12-11 Thread Ned Deily
https://discuss.python.org/t/3-7-2rc1-and-3-6-8rc1-cutoffs-ahead-last-3-6-x-bugfix-release/510/3?u=nad OK, thanks to a lot of hard work by many of you, I think we are ready to start the manufacturing of **3.7.2rc1** and **3.6.8rc1**. For the **3.7 branch**, as usual feel free to continue to

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] 3.7.2rc1 and 3.6.8rc1 cutoffs ahead, last 3.6.x bugfix release!

2018-12-09 Thread Ned Deily
On Dec 4, 2018, at 03:42, Ned Deily wrote: > https://discuss.python.org/t/3-7-2rc1-and-3-6-8rc1-cutoffs-ahead-last-3-6-x-bugfix-release/510 An update: as of the planned Friday cutoff, we still had a few open issues. Since 3.6.8 is the last planned bugfix for the 3.6 branch, I would like to