[Python-Dev] Where is our official policy of what platforms we do support?

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

+1 for an official policy that comes with a "permanent maintainer for
this platform required"  as part of the list
of requisites.

  js
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On 14 May 2014 11:20, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Over the past week or so there have been 2 patches to add support for
> various UNIX OSs. Now I thought we had stopped trying to add new esoteric
> OSs (e.g. I had never heard of MirOS until the patch for it came in), but I
> can't find a PEP that spells out what it takes to get a platform supported
> (http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/ is about removing platforms,
> not keeping them or adding them unless you are re-adding one which
> apparently just takes a volunteer).
>
> Do we want an official policy written down in a PEP (yes, I can write it)?
> Should I keep closing these patches and saying that we are not adding
> support for new operating systems and be hand-wavy about it?
>
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