<div dir="ltr"><div>All,</div><div><br></div><div>I'd suggest dropping 2.7 and not having an LTS.</div><div>In the SCons project we held on to supporting old versions for a long time until fairly recently.</div><div>Once we dropped support for several older python versions over the course of a few releases we've never heard requests for bugfixes for those version. (1.5.7->2.2, 2.2->2.4, 2.4->2.5, 2.5->2.7+3.5(and above))<br></div><div>Cut over to Python 3.5 (if not higher), and don't look back.</div><div><br></div><div>If it turns out that some high impact bug affects the last 2.7 version, you can make one-off decisions to port the fix back.</div><div>But given the non-infinite amount of developer time available for any open source project, it's probably not worthy trying to support basically two development streams..</div><div><br></div><div>-Bill</div><div>Botherder and SCons project Co-manager<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 6:46 AM Pierre Tardy <<a href="mailto:tardyp@gmail.com">tardyp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br><div>With new fresh contributors coming with lots of new ideas and energy, we are thinking about dropping the support for python 2. </div></div><div>This would allow to embrace newer features, and simplify the code by removing compat code.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other end, we also have other people asking to slow down the monthly release pace (cause it is hard to keep up)</div><div><br></div><div>One solution would be to release a 1.7.0 LTS version, and only integrate bug fixes there.</div><div><br></div><div>Please have a look on the discussion on our issue tracker:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/issues/4439" target="_blank">https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/issues/4439</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Pierre</div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_254070328971670826gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><br></p>
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