News. Development and release plan.

Two weeks ago I was given full permissions to this repository, as well as to readthedocs and pypy. I see that there is a very small interest in this project from developers, so several things will be changed soon. This is an announcement about these changes.

1. At the Sunday version 1.7.0 will be released to pypy. It will be the current master, with maybe some not-code related changes.
2. This will be the last release with full code reviews from several core committers. Just because it delays development.
3. The final release of 1.7.x expected on December 31. Only bugfixes for 1.7.0 will be reviews at this time.

New year plan.

The history of this project shows two things.

1. It is self-full at this moment. I.e. it does the thing that supposes to do at this moment. All problems have some kinds of workarounds.
2. Waiting for a sponsor is non-effective.

So the decision:

Let’s make something new. With honor and respect to the past.

1. From January 1st and later master branch will include new changes that can be non-compatible with the old version but should introduce new functions.
2. Fixes for the old version will be included in new releases of 1.7.x, but only bugfixes for confirmed bugs will be included. All new development should be made in the new version 2.0.x
3. Contributors list for versions 1.x and 2.x will be separated in the documentation.
4. Templates links will be removed from the main master page, as we cannot control templates live and security. I will try to create issue at every template branch, how to implement correct keywords for GitHub search.
5. Most of the issues and pull requests will be closed or merged to 2.0.0 without waiting for contributors. Only live work should be at issues/pr page.

Feel free to comment on this issue. Every thought will be included in the development plan.

[insspb]

• Tag for 1.8.0 for next version where some not deep changes will be made, with still support of Python 2.7 (not sure about 2.7)
• Tag 2.0.0 is wide list of improvements and changes, some will be moved to 1.9 or to 2.1… The goal to make releases more frequently. Not one time in several years 😃

All future planning will be in projects tab.

[insspb]

@geerlingguy No problem, but I saw this accidentally. I checked for new bugs before sleep, but you answered in old topic 😃 Please create issue next time. Thank you.