Hi Plamen,

I suppose we can make autotest work with a dialect compatible with
python2.7 and python3.x. The problem however is the man power required
to go through the codebase and make the adjustments. Sure, I can make
a bunch of semi-automated changes to ease the fine grained work, but
testing and getting to a point where it's fully python3 compliant is
something that we don't have the resources to go through. Avocado took
Cleber, Lukas and Amador many release cycles to get it 100% done.

So let's go with 'no'. Like I said, it's possible to do some changes
to ease the work of an interested party, but going all the way to a
fully functional python2.7/3.x compliant codebase is something we may
never see.

Cheers,

Lucas

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 9:21 PM, Plamen Dimitrov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know Autotest is not under active development and virt-test is already 
> deprecated,
> but I was still wondering about the future plans on it regarding the 
> deprecation of python2.
>
> In particular:
>
> - upstream Python 2.7 support expires on 2020-01-01 
> (https://lwn.net/Articles/750846/)
> - there will never be another Python 2.x feature release 
> (https://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404/)
> - Fedora is already expiring Python 2 packages wherever possible 
> (https://lwn.net/Articles/750849/)
>
> Is there any chance of Autotest possibly moving to python 3 or is the plan to 
> leave it on
> python 2 and let it deprecate in the same way while moving all effort to 
> avocado?
>
> I will be glad to hear your thoughts on the matter,
> Plamen
>
>
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Lucas

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