Document the process for upgrading the course's recommended Python version #10
Description
This should be a checklist (maybe as an issue template?) of steps to go through to verify that the content remains accurate for major CPython releases.
- Read through “What’s New in Python 3.x” document to look for major changes that require changes to the content of the course (e.g. new features like free-threading, JIT, …)
- Run through code snippets and make sure they run without deprecation warnings, etc.
- Verify that performance claims remain qualitatively correct. (Some quantitative variations between different machines or CPython versions are expected.)
- Check that dependencies (e.g. NumPy, line_profiler, …) have published wheels supporting the new release.
Major new releases of other dependencies should only affect individual lessons and will usually be caught when checking for deprecation warnings above; so it’s probably sufficient to handle these ad hoc, without creating specific checklists for each.
See also previous discussion in RSE-Sheffield#75.