Re: Notes from the DC22 Python Team BoF

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 7/25/22 09:37, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 07:52:19PM +0200, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > We had a Python Team BoF at DC22 earlier today and I thought relaying the
> > notes we took in gobby here would be a good idea.
>
> Thanks for the notes, Louis-Philippe, and sorry I couldn't join you!
>
> A few comments....
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > == python3.11 ==
> >
> > python3.11 release has been delayed, from october 2022 to december 2022.
> > [...]
>
> My 2 cents' worth is as the 3.9->3.10 transition took several months,
> and was quite complicated, it is not wise to attempt the 3.10->3.11
> before the freeze.  We could then potentially go straight to 3.12 a
> few months after the bookworm freeze rather than going to 3.11 first.
> And that will probably be quite painful.

I agree, also because 3.10 wont be EOL before Bookworm becomes LTS.

However, it's quite tempting to upgrade to 3.11 because:
- our users will prefer having the latest stable release of Python in 
our latest release, rather than an old version.
- 3.11 has many optimization (it's said to be 25% faster)

So if we can at least TRY, it's not a so bad idea... Hopefully, we can 
take the decision to reverse if needed.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)