PEP 826: Python 3.16 Release Schedule

[savannahostrowski]

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• Read and followed PEP 1 & PEP 12
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• Required sections included
  • Abstract (first section)
  • Copyright (last section; exact wording from template required)
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It is very early but I'm currently planning out travel for the year and so figured I'd open the draft of this now. Not totally sure on the timing for merging this but I'm sure @hugovk will let me know :D

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📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://pep-previews--4829.org.readthedocs.build/

[AA-Turner]

Exciting!

A

[hugovk]

@AA-Turner What value should we have here? The docs build got an error:

ValueError: Saw invalid version status '', expected to be one of EOL, bugfix, end-of-life, feature, in development, pre-release, prerelease, security, security-fixes, stable.
(1 additional frame(s) were not displayed)
...
  File "build_docs.py", line 1018, in main
    return build_docs_with_lock(args, "build_docs_html_en.lock")
  File "build_docs.py", line 1169, in build_docs_with_lock
    return build_docs(args)
  File "build_docs.py", line 1179, in build_docs
    versions = parse_versions_from_peps_site(http)
  File "build_docs.py", line 1264, in parse_versions_from_peps_site
    return Versions.from_json(releases)
  File "build_docs.py", line 118, in from_json
    raise ValueError(msg)