[Python-Dev] Re: The Python 2 death march

2019-09-18 Thread Kyle Stanley
Benjamin, what are you thoughts on usage of the "needs backport to 2.7" label? For most of the PRs I've reviewed I tend to avoid adding it myself, but I've seen it used periodically. It seems to be used rather infrequently (

[Python-Dev] Re: The Python 2 death march

2019-09-18 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/18/2019 1:45 PM, Chris Barker via Python-Dev wrote: I'm just echoing (and agreeing with) Peter here -- there is a specific date in the PEP (January 1 2020), and that has been adopted by pythonclock and others, so it would be good to be clear what EXACTLY "support stops" means. In terms

[Python-Dev] Re: The Python 2 death march

2019-09-18 Thread Chris Barker via Python-Dev
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:39 PM Terry Reedy wrote: > I agree. The thread title is a bit extreme. There will be a long > twilight. > > > Metaphorically that is correct, but at the same time there are > > things like https://pythonclock.org which > > is one