Hi,

I'd like to add some dates regarding 3.8 removal and 3.10 switch to
the implementation timeline [1].

Unless I'm mistaken, CPython is following a yearly release cycle these
days. I think it would make sense to also aim for a yearly cycle
in Gentoo, i.e. roughly switch to the next minor version every year.

Hence my proposal would be to:

a. ASAP: send "please port your packages to py3.9" mail

b. 2022-06-01: remove py3.8 target

c. ASAP: stabilize Python 3.9 interpreter + start working towards
unmasking python3_9 flag on stable

d. 2022-06-01: switch the default to py3.10

In other news, there's a good chance that PyPy3 will catch up to 3.9
before we remove 3.8.

WDYT?


[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/Implementations#Implementation_support_timeline

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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On 11/11/21 17:05, Michał Górny wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to add some dates regarding 3.8 removal and 3.10 switch to
the implementation timeline [1].

Unless I'm mistaken, CPython is following a yearly release cycle these
days. I think it would make sense to also aim for a yearly cycle
in Gentoo, i.e. roughly switch to the next minor version every year.

Hence my proposal would be to:

a. ASAP: send "please port your packages to py3.9" mail

b. 2022-06-01: remove py3.8 target

c. ASAP: stabilize Python 3.9 interpreter + start working towards
unmasking python3_9 flag on stable

d. 2022-06-01: switch the default to py3.10

In other news, there's a good chance that PyPy3 will catch up to 3.9
before we remove 3.8.

WDYT?

If the interpreters we support are aligned to 3.9 by the time python 3.8
is EOL, it is fine.

Maybe could be good to add tags to git when we do this so people have an
easy way to update from older setups.

lu

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