Perfect, thanks, Ian! I'll get a ML for a Python 3 porting SWAT team together once we make sure no one has a sane technical reason to avoid this so soon (I don't think there's any)
Thanks, Ian! Excited to work with you! Paul On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> > wrote: >> >> Heyya d-p, >> >> I'd like to send an email to d-d-a asking that project to consider no >> longer creating new Debian tools in Python 2. >> >> I'd like this to have the endorsement of the team, so, does anyone object >> to >> me asking people to not write new tools in Python 2 only (prefer >> alternative >> deps or porting), and only use Python 2 in very special curcumstances or >> for legacy codebases (perhaps a pitch to move to Python 3), along with a >> note that we plan to deprecate Python 2 when upstream support is gone >> (2020), which puts us on track for two cycles (Buster) >> >> >> I'll make note of a team which should exist to help with such porting, >> (I'm up to help with this) that was one of the items that came out of >> the PyCon chit-chat. I got the sense from the room that this would be >> OK, but just checking if anyone here has a substantive objection. >> >> If not, I'll send that out later on today/tomorow. >> >> >> Thanks! >> Paul >> >> -- >> .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer >> : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 >> `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag >> `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt > > > > Hey everyone! > > I realize I haven't made a formal introduction of myself to this list (I'll > do that some other time), but I have a fairly significant amount of > experience adding Python 3 compatibility to tools while retaining Python 2 > compatibility (I recently just helped SQLObject release 3.0.0a1 which is the > first version to support Python 3.4). We might want to move to making the > tools compatible first and then drop support for Python 3. Also, I'm very > much up for helping with this. > > Cheers, > Ian -- :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAO6P2QST9ZXkzm=jmafszya2pzh_w_ps-efupqfhadesf+1...@mail.gmail.com