Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Timeline for Python 3.9 switch and Python 3.7 removal

[Alec Warner]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 3:45 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to discuss a rough timeline for switching the default
> PYTHON_TARGETS to python3.9.
>
> According to the upstream release schedule [1], the last bugfix release
> is planned for May.  Afterwards, upstream will release only security
> fixes.  At the same time, our rough current schedule [2] suggests that
> we'll start last-riting stuff May 1st, so the 3.7 target would be
> removed in 15-30 days.
>
> Do you think 2021-06-01 would be a reasonable planned switchover date?

So you are saying we will start masking packages may 1st and we will
drop 3.7 targets 30 days later (june 1?)

(I felt like this was a bit ambiguous?)

-A

>
> [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0569/#bugfix-releases
> [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/Implementations
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> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
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