# Welcome the 3.16 and 3.17 Release Manager: Savannah Bailey! **URL:** \ **Category:** Core Development\ **Created:** [July 25, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/welcome-the-3-16-and-3-17-release-manager-savannah-bailey/100163 "2025-07-25T18:16:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hugovk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/hugovk/32/14505_2.png) [@hugovk](https://discuss.python.org/u/hugovk)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/welcome-the-3-16-and-3-17-release-manager-savannah-bailey/100163/1 "2025-07-25T18:16:39Z")
Each release manager shepherds a pair of consecutive Python versions through alphas, betas, release candidates, bugfix releases, and security releases to end-of-life. Following 17 months of prerelease, each release is maintained for five years (see [PEP 602](https://peps.python.org/pep-0602/)), meaning both versions are nearly a 7.5 year commitment in all. We traditionally wait until around beta of the current RM’s final release to select the next one, but we’ve found the next ~~hapless victim~~ brave volunteer, so why wait? I’m very happy to announce @savannahostrowski as the Release Manager for Python ~~3.27 and 3.28~~ 3.16 and 3.17! Savannah works on the JIT and the argparse module, and as soon as the EuroPython 2025 videos are live, I urge you all to watch her excellent [opening keynote](https://ep2025.europython.eu/session/you-dont-have-to-be-a-compiler-engineer-to-work-on-python) on all the different ways people can contribute to Python. Please join me in welcoming Savannah! ---
**Author:** ![savannahostrowski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/savannahostrowski/32/25496_2.png) [@savannahostrowski](https://discuss.python.org/u/savannahostrowski)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/welcome-the-3-16-and-3-17-release-manager-savannah-bailey/100163/2 "2025-07-25T18:31:02Z")
Thanks so much, Hugo! I’m incredibly honoured and excited to take on the role of RM, and deeply grateful to the Steering Council and the RMs before me for their support, encouragement, and trust. Python has been a cornerstone of my career and community for over a decade, and it’s an incredible privilege to give back in such a meaningful way. …In any case, let’s ship some Python! Onward! 🚀 ---
**Author:** ![ambv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/ambv/32/25884_2.png) [@ambv](https://discuss.python.org/u/ambv)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/welcome-the-3-16-and-3-17-release-manager-savannah-bailey/100163/3 "2025-07-25T18:35:17Z")
Welcome to the team, @savannahostrowski! 🫡 ---
**Author:** ![brettcannon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/brettcannon/32/34895_2.png) [@brettcannon](https://discuss.python.org/u/brettcannon)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/welcome-the-3-16-and-3-17-release-manager-savannah-bailey/100163/4 "2025-07-25T22:02:40Z")
> [@savannahostrowski](#): > > honoured Let the Canadian spelling in release notes begin! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![guido](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/guido/32/21_2.png) [@guido](https://discuss.python.org/u/guido)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/welcome-the-3-16-and-3-17-release-manager-savannah-bailey/100163/5 "2025-07-26T03:46:38Z")
Congrats Savannah! I’m already looking forward to finding out how you’ll personalize the release messages. –Guido ---
**Author:** ![ncoghlan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/ncoghlan/32/14266_2.png) [@ncoghlan](https://discuss.python.org/u/ncoghlan)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/welcome-the-3-16-and-3-17-release-manager-savannah-bailey/100163/6 "2025-07-26T06:25:55Z")
> [@brettcannon](#): > > Let the Canadian spelling Ahem, Commonwealth spelling 🙂 Thank you for taking this on, @savannahostrowski! ---
**Author:** ![pablogsal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/pablogsal/32/32246_2.png) [@pablogsal](https://discuss.python.org/u/pablogsal)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/welcome-the-3-16-and-3-17-release-manager-savannah-bailey/100163/7 "2025-07-26T08:40:46Z")
One of us one of us one of us 😄 Congratulations 🤘 ---
**Author:** ![brettcannon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/brettcannon/32/34895_2.png) [@brettcannon](https://discuss.python.org/u/brettcannon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/welcome-the-3-16-and-3-17-release-manager-savannah-bailey/100163/8 "2025-07-29T17:07:45Z")
> [@ncoghlan](#): > > Ahem, Commonwealth spelling 🙂 Actually, Canadian spelling doesn’t match Australian or British spelling universally, so I purposefully didn’t put Savannah in a position to have to use “z” less than she’s used to. 😉 But at least we get to have _some_ overlap. 😊