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I don't have a stake in this and don't know much about the background, so pardon if this comment is out of touch. Is this the first notice of this date? January

by tobr 7y ago

I don't have a stake in this and don't know much about the background, so pardon if this comment is out of touch. Is this the first notice of this date? January 1 is just 16 weeks away, which seems like an awfully short notice for ending security updates of a very popular language. EDIT: I see now that they mention that 2020 has been the plan since 2014, which seems reasonable.

melling 7y ago
Nah, we got a 5 year extension about 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7581434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7581434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372913
raverbashing 7y ago
If you read the article it was explained there, but tl;dr: it was announced in 2014 (that support would end in Jan 1st 2020)
- rndgermandude 7y ago
  It was announced in 2014 that the sunset day would be further extended to 2020. The original sunset date was 2015, announced in 2008. That's more than 10 years ago that the intention to sunset python2 at a specific date was announced. Anybody who, after 2008, started new, serious python2 projects that were supposed to have a life expectancy beyond a few years was rather "optimistic", and anybody who did after 2015 was almost callous, especially if you "played" with other people's money.