Re:Python adopts a 12-month release cycle
by vnglst on Friday November 01, 2019 @05:12PM
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Ah my bad, I think that's the wrong link describing the old process. I remember a recent talk by Axel (author of that post) describing the new process where features are accepted as soon as they are done (i.e. stage 4). But I can't find any articles by him to back this up, so maybe my memory is failing me ;-)
Update: ok, as soon as a proposal reaches stage 4 it's considered finalized and part of the standard. A proposal can reach stage 4 at any time during the year. At that point browser vendors will start implementing those. https://flaviocopes.com/es2019/
"There will be one release per year and it will contain all features that are finished by a yearly deadline."
That seems to be what is going on here with Python. Most JS implementations have differing amounts of the early stage features they have implemented, and given their open source nature some of the Python implementations can do the same thing.
I feel like I'm missing your point but to me it looks like the languages are converging on broadly similar release processes.