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> On 24 Mar 2019, at 05:26, Deng Xiaodong <xd.den...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1 (non-bonding)
> 
>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 11:49 Tao Feng <fengta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> +1 (binding)
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 4:19 PM Driesprong, Fokko <fo...@driesprong.frl>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear Airflow community,
>>> 
>>> This email calls for a vote to accept Airflow Improvement Proposal 3:
>> Drop
>>> support for Python 2
>>> 
>>> The vote will last for at least 1 week until Midnight Sunday 31th of
>> March,
>>> and until three +1 (binding) votes have been cast
>>> 
>>> This vote is on the proposal itself, not any specific code or pull
>> request.
>>> A failed vote does not mean the proposal is rejected, just not accepted
>> at
>>> this time. (To reject a proposal entirely is its own vote)
>>> 
>>> This is my +1 (binding) vote.
>>> 
>>> Having to support Python 2 and 3 concurrently causes some maintenance and
>>> development burden (which is lessened a bit by six and backports
>> modules),
>>> significant extra test time on Travis, and more complexity on the CI
>>> process to also have Python 2 images.
>>> 
>>> Python 2 is reaching End of Life in January 1, 2020 and will receive zero
>>> updates, even security ones past this date.
>>> 
>>> Django dropped support for Python 2 with their 2.0 release in December
>>> 2017, and this proposal has us follow suit. Airflow 2.0 is already a
>> fairly
>>> major breaking change, so this could be an opportune time to do this.
>> There
>>> is already a significant list of projects which are dropping support for
>>> Python2: https://python3statement.org/
>>> Furthermore, the community started recently adding types to the code of
>>> Airflow to help new contributors, and make the code more
>>> readable/maintainable: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/4926/files
>>> Right now we're limited to setting these types in the comments, to
>> maintain
>>> Airflow 2.7 compatibility, which is a pity.
>>> 
>>> For discussing the proposal in depth, please refer to the Wiki to keep
>> all
>>> the communication in a single place:
>>> 
>>> 
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/AIP-3+Drop+support+for+Python+2
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Fokko
>>> 
>> 

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