Add more supporting links and fix some fields

Author: AA-Turner

release_management/python-releases.toml

@@ -20,49 +20,80 @@
 
 # -- Python 1.6 --------------------------------------------------------------
 
+# Drake wrote PEP 160, but Hylton served as release manager:
+# https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FCPLKMFDZUDOQGPAEKGKB2VQYTI4JT7Y/
+# https://jeremyhylton.blogspot.com/2006/05/contributing-to-python.html
+
 [metadata."1.6"]
 pep = 160
 status = "end-of-life"
 branch = ""  # no branch or tag for 1.6 exists
-release-manager = "Fred L. Drake, Jr"
+release-manager = "Guido van Rossum & Jeremy Hylton"
 start-of-development = 1999-06-09
 first-release = 2000-09-05
-feature-freeze = 2000-08-03
+feature-freeze = 2000-08-04
 end-of-bugfix = 2000-09-05
 end-of-life = 2000-09-05
 
+# 1.6.0 alpha {1,2} are not in the PEP, but are found on python-dev at:
+# https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IOO74NZNEUAHNYJFVK7K3P7RCNMFBE5W/
+# https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/65J6CYRPPUNCUW523J3EO77RKAY3BS3F/
+
+[[release."1.6"]]
+stage = "1.6.0 alpha 1"
+state = "actual"
+date = 2000-03-31
+
+[[release."1.6"]]
+stage = "1.6.0 alpha 2"
+state = "actual"
+date = 2000-04-11
+
+# PEP 160 records 3 August 2000, but the announcement and source archive date
+# from the 4th.
+# https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IF3YORLE7PTOR2QLMHI6UACGHDHZCAVO/
+# https://legacy.python.org/download/releases/src/python-1.6b1.tar.gz
+
 [[release."1.6"]]
 stage = "1.6.0 beta 1"
 state = "actual"
-date = 2000-08-03
+date = 2000-08-04
 
 [[release."1.6"]]
 stage = "1.6.0 final"
 state = "actual"
 date = 2000-09-05
 
+# 1.6.1 is not in the PEP, but is found on python-announce at:
+# https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NSMG65WRUF5QLJD54H63B57BJFAGI5Y3/
+
 [[release."1.6"]]
 stage = "1.6.1 final"
 state = "actual"
-date = 2000-09-05
+date = 2001-02-25
 
 # -- Python 2.0 --------------------------------------------------------------
 
+# Python 2.0 feature freeze is listed separately in PEP 200, it isn't beta 1.
+
 [metadata."2.0"]
 pep = 200
 status = "end-of-life"
 branch = "2.0"
-release-manager = "Jeremy Hylton"
+release-manager = "Guido van Rossum & Jeremy Hylton"
 start-of-development = 2000-06-29
 first-release = 2000-10-16
 feature-freeze = 2000-08-14
 end-of-bugfix = 2001-06-22
 end-of-life = 2001-06-22
 
+# PEP 200 records 5 September 2000, but the announcement was on the 6th (GMT):
+# https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3JDD34UGV2L7QP7S37S37RZXXMDOMMIX/
+
 [[release."2.0"]]
 stage = "2.0.0 beta 1"
 state = "actual"
-date = 2000-09-05
+date = 2000-09-06
 
 [[release."2.0"]]
 stage = "2.0.0 beta 2"
@@ -82,11 +113,13 @@ date = 2000-10-16
 # 2.0.1 is not in the PEP, but is found on the website at:
 # https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-201/
 # https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.0.1/
+# https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/23N7ECY4XTIE3CTTY6LK7K6QLAOD4GLK/
+# https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CRIOLY7NPVJCOXWGS4JXQNTKQCUOL23N/
 
 [[release."2.0"]]
 stage = "2.0.1 candidate 1"
 state = "actual"
-date = 2001-06-13
+date = 2001-06-14
 
 [[release."2.0"]]
 stage = "2.0.1 final"
@@ -99,7 +132,7 @@ date = 2001-06-22
 pep = 226
 status = "end-of-life"
 branch = "2.1"
-release-manager = "Jeremy Hylton"
+release-manager = "Guido van Rossum & Jeremy Hylton"
 start-of-development = 2000-10-16
 first-release = 2001-04-17
 feature-freeze = 2001-03-02
@@ -826,6 +859,11 @@ date = 2013-10-29
 
 # -- Python 2.7 --------------------------------------------------------------
 
+# The end-of-life date is before the final release (2.7.18), per PEP 373:
+# > Support officially stopped January 1, 2020, and 2.7.18 code freeze
+# > occurred on January 1, 2020, but the final release occurred
+# > after that date.
+
 [metadata."2.7"]
 pep = 373
 status = "end-of-life"
@@ -1054,6 +1092,10 @@ date = 2020-04-20
 
 # -- Python 3.0 --------------------------------------------------------------
 
+# PEP 361 does not list an end-of-life date. We use the statement from the
+# website that 'Python 3.0 is end-of-lifed with the release of Python 3.1.'.
+# The latter was first released on 27 June 2009.
+
 [metadata."3.0"]
 pep = 361
 status = "end-of-life"