Thanks to Sundeep, who has already started and worked on this.
So hopefully we will have a working py3 zanata-python-client for F30+ soon.
:-)

See https://github.com/zanata/zanata-python-client/pull/52

Jens

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 9:56 PM Martin Kolman <mkol...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I come from the tha Anaconda installer project and we use the Python
> Zanata client to push & pull translations from the
> Fedora Zanata instance where Anaconda is being translated. As far as I
> know, there are many other projects that do the
> same (Blivet, Blivet-GUI, Storaged, etc.), even though it might not be
> readily apparent due to not directly depending on
> the python2-zanata-client package, but rather just installing it manually
> on the machine where builds are being created.
>
> As we all know, Python 2 is going away soon (in less than 10 months) and
> Fedora is already doing a lot of work to get
> remove as many Python 2 packages as possible.
>
> Therefore it's pretty alarming that something as important as a client for
> the official Fedora translation service is
> still Python 2-only with not even a hint of Python 3 support being worked
> on as far as I can tell. Python Zanata client
> upstream[0] has last activity ~year ago, but seems to be mostly dead since
> 2017 with no support for Python 3 in sight.
>
> There are also some bugs & an upstream issue inquiring about Python 3
> support in the Zanata Python client:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1676408
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1685550
> https://zanata.atlassian.net/browse/ZNTA-2791
>
> And at the moment, the client can't even be installed on Rawhide and F30:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1676388
>
> This has prompted me to write this email & to CC all people mentioned as
> maintainers on the package page[0].
>
> What can be done about this ? Is Python 3 support for the Zanata Python
> client being worked on, so that we won't loose
> the package ? Or do we just wait for it to be dropped from Fedora - and
> then what ?
>
> Hopefully someone can answer these questions. :)
>
> Best Wishes
> Martin Kolman
>
> [0] https://github.com/zanata/zanata-python-client
> [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/zanata-python-client
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