From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 859A01382C5 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FA29E0A5C; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:37:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14CE4E0A59 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Timeline for Python 3.9 switch and Python 3.7 removal From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 01:36:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <4a3db9e8d721fa698b6c648c8bd052c87d963071.camel@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 2e0d2a20-b449-4372-82e8-54813884bc5c X-Archives-Hash: d04f25486a263d00887936b9d29c83bb On Thu, 2021-02-18 at 16:01 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 3:45 PM Michał Górny 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?) The target will be removed when all packages not supporting 3.8 are removed, so the exact time depends on what package will remain in ::gentoo at May 1st. Ideally, all packages will be ported by then and the only packages to mask will be backports. For these, I use the shorter 14 day period. However, if we have to remove some real packages I'll use 30 days instead. -- Best regards, Michał Górny