Adoption of new Python in PyPI packages, longer RC periods?

[Jelle (Jelle Zijlstra)]

@henryiii

Did the 3.13 release get moved? Is there somewhere to see the expected date?

Incremental GC and pushing back the 3.13.0 release

I’m a little [1] concerned with the impact of the incremental GC change in 3.13, which recently showed up (Incremental GC means that Sphinx is significantly slower in 3.13 than in 3.12 · Issue #124567 · python/cpython · GitHub). It’s not clear that the incremental GC provides significant improvements (although the smaller pauses are probably desirable), it clearly has slightly more overhead in common cases, and we’re still discovering pathological cases. I don’t think we should release 3.13.0 wi…