More frequent Python releases?
More frequent Python releases?
[Development] Posted Jun 19, 2019 17:10 UTC (Wed) by jake
Python has followed an 18-month release cycle for many years now; each new 3.x release comes at that frequency. It has worked well, overall, but there is interest in having a shorter cycle, which would mean that new features get into users' hands more quickly. But changing that longstanding cycle has implications in many different places, some of which have come up as part of a discussion on switching to a cycle of a different length.