Due to References: header the prior email was still sorted in the discussion thread. Cancelling this and resending without that header.
Leonard Lausen <leon...@lausen.nl> writes: > 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.
