Marco de Abreu <marco.g.ab...@gmail.com> writes: > 1. Which Python version to support. 3.5 vs 3.6 is currently in the > discussion due to Ubuntu 16.04 being shipped with 3.5 while the biggest > market share being 3.6 as of now.
We could drop Python 2 even before deciding when to drop 3.5. > 2. When to do the deprecation. EOY to match with official Python 2 > deprecation, in 1.5 years to be in line with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or with the > next major release (2.0) to adhere to semantic versioning. >From a Semantic Versioning standepoint, "Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the: MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes, MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner, [...]" [1]. Based on Semantic Versioning, the question is if we consider Python 2 support to be part of our API, or rather independent. In the latter case, dropping for 1.6 is fine. >From a user-experience perspective, users that want to continue using Python 2 for the next 127 days (until EOL date) currently have bigger worries than needing to upgrade to the next upcoming MXNet release. They must transition their codebase to Py3 within 127 days. For those days, they may just stay on MXNet 1.5? [1]: https://semver.org/ > Once these points (and any future ones) have been properly discussed and > the community came to an agreement, we can formalize it with a voting > thread. Until then, I'd recommend to refrain from any actions or > user-facing communication regarding this topic. Thus, let's start a vote on dropping Python 2 for MXNet 1.6. It's fine if this vote fails, but we need to get a clear understanding how we want to move forward. For better visibility, I'm removing the In-Reply-To: header, which was pointing to cahtwjdorqsrbau0a89xjwasawgbvgz7bojsu6tkmxdl+ruh...@mail.gmail.com > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:29 AM Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I have sent a PR that removes Python2 from CI. But was closed. I thought >> everyone was +1 on this one. This would remove quite a bit of load on CI: >> >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/15990 >> >> If it's not the right time to do this, what steps do we need to take? >> >> Pedro.
