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In #4179 / #4907, the xarray policy around minimum supported version of dependencies was changed, with the reasoning that the previous policy (based on NEP-29) was too aggressive.
Ironically, this caused xarray to drop Python 3.8 on Jan 26th (#7461), 3 months before what NEP-29 recommends (Apr 14th).
This is hard to defend - and in fact it sparked discontent (see late comments in #7461).
Regardless of what policy xarray decides to use internally, it should never be more aggressive than NEP-29.
The xarray documentation is also incorrect, as it states "Python: 24 months (NEP-29)" which is not, in fact, in NEP-29.