Python 3 Transition Plan / Calendar Versioning

[Augie Fackler]

> On Oct 15, 2019, at 14:47, André Sintzoff <andre.sintzoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Le mer. 9 oct. 2019 à 03:30, Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> Our new versioning scheme will be YYYY.[M]M.N. e.g. 2020.5.0 or 2020.10.1. This scheme consists of the 4 digit year, a 1-2 digit month, and a monotonically increasing point release, starting at 0. This scheme is compatible with our existing versioning scheme, has a major version that is greater than 5, and doesn't have a leading 0 in the month field (which could confuse version parsers).
> 
> With new versioning scheme, what is the meaning of [M]M modification?
> Is it only calendar based or is it feature based?
> 
> Will the sequence be:
> 2020.2.0 (feature release)
> 2020.3.0 (bugfix release)
> 2020.4.0 (bugfix release)
> 2020.5.0 (feature release)
> 
> or
> 
> 2020.2.0 (feature release)
> 2020.2.1 (bugfix release)
> 2020.2.2 (bugfix release)
> 2020.5.0 (feature release)

This one.

> I'm asking this because people waiting the first bugfix release before updating.
> Depending on the sequence, it will be very difficult for users to know
> if a release is a bug fix one or a feature one.
> 
> According to the 5.2 Sprint Notes, there was a discussion regarding
> the cadence of the feature releases.
> Personally, I would prefer to keep quarterly feature releases for normal users.
> 
> Is there any planned change?

We discussed it, but decided not to change that for now.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> André
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