[pypy-commit] pypy default: start to write a release announcement

[antocuni]

Author: Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com>
Branch: 
Changeset: r95736:8019bdc4d877
Date: 2019-01-28 18:50 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/8019bdc4d877/

Log:	start to write a release announcement

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+======================================================
+PyPy v7.0.0: triple release of 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6-alpha
+======================================================
+
+The PyPy team is proud to release the version 7.0.0 of PyPy, which includes
+three different interpreters:
+
+  - PyPy2.7, which is an interpreter supporting the syntax and the features of
+    Python 2.7
+
+  - PyPy3.5, which supports Python 3.5
+
+  - PyPy3.6-alpha: this is the first official release of PyPy to support 3.6
+    features, although it is still considered alpha quality.
+    
+All the interpreters are based on much the same codebase, thus the triple
+release.
+
+XXX write release highlights
+
+You can download the v6.0 releases here:
+
+    http://pypy.org/download.html
+
+We would like to thank our donors for the continued support of the PyPy
+project. If PyPy is not quite good enough for your needs, we are available for
+direct consulting work.
+
+We would also like to thank our contributors and encourage new people to join
+the project. PyPy has many layers and we need help with all of them: `PyPy`_
+and `RPython`_ documentation improvements, tweaking popular `modules`_ to run
+on pypy, or general `help`_ with making RPython's JIT even better.
+
+.. _`PyPy`: index.html
+.. _`RPython`: https://rpython.readthedocs.org
+.. _`modules`: project-ideas.html#make-more-python-modules-pypy-friendly
+.. _`help`: project-ideas.html
+
+
+What is PyPy?
+=============
+
+PyPy is a very compliant Python interpreter, almost a drop-in replacement for
+CPython 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6. It's fast (`PyPy and CPython 2.7.x`_ performance
+comparison) due to its integrated tracing JIT compiler.
+
+We also welcome developers of other `dynamic languages`_ to see what RPython
+can do for them.
+
+The PyPy release supports:
+
+  * **x86** machines on most common operating systems
+    (Linux 32/64 bits, Mac OS X 64 bits, Windows 32 bits, OpenBSD, FreeBSD)
+
+  * big- and little-endian variants of **PPC64** running Linux,
+
+  * **s390x** running Linux
+
+Unfortunately at the moment of writing our ARM buildbots are out of service,
+so for now we are **not** releasing any binary for the ARM architecture.
+
+.. _`PyPy and CPython 2.7.x`: http://speed.pypy.org
+.. _`dynamic languages`: http://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html
+
+
+Changelog
+=========
+
+XXX write me