What's the release schedule?

[pradyunsg]

What kind of release schedule does pip follow? Time based? Feature based?

When are the various parts of a version (major.minor.patch) bumped?

[pradyunsg]

AFAICS:

Time based.

• major version bump around every 4-8 months.
• minor version bump around every 2-4 months.
• patch version bumps in groups.

Is this a correct assessment or is there something I'm missing?

[dstufft]

That's roughly what it ends up being, though the truth is that it gets released whenever I feel like cutting a release, and the versions get bumped in roughly a semver-ish way, but that we try to prevent doing major version bumps too regularly.

[pradyunsg]

Oh. Cool.

[pradyunsg]

This was probably the issue with the shortest lifespan on this repository... :)

[pradyunsg]

Since this is the first issue that shows up on searching "pip release schedule", I'll note that in #5324, pip switched to a CalVer based versioning scheme -- releases are now time based.

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