Hi Nicklas, all, Thanks for the summary and pushing things forward!
Just one addition, for the sake of completeness: On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:16 PM Nicklas Larsson via grass-dev <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > > First of all, thank you all for your feedback and contribution to this topic. > I think it is really important to clearly state the "rules of the game" for > going forward. > > Let me try summarise the need for this: > ... > - G7 has seen the transition from Python 2 to 3 [1]. Going forward, a final > (official and unambiguous) dot for Python 2 need to be put with a statement > of minimum support of a Python 3 version. There was another big transition in the past, being worked on, if I recall correctly, from 2002 onwards (we started discussions in ITC-irst with Prof Giulio Antoniol) and implemented the final result after many discussions in the repo in Januar 2006: Source code conversion of K&R C notation to ANSI C, modifying almost all GRASS GIS files: - [details](https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2006-January/020767.html) - [scientific article](http://www.antoniol.net/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/2006/04021333.pdf): A Feedback Based Quality Assessment to Support Open Source Software Evolution: the GRASS Case Study,22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'2006), - related source code changes: - [r18618](https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/18618), - [r18619](https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/18619), - [r18623](https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/18623), - [r18625](https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/18625), - [r18626](https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/18626), - [r18627](https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/18627), - [r18628](https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/18628), - [r18632](https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/18632), - [r18633](https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/18633) It was a massive C change as you can see which we managed to generate by eventually automating most of the conversion/update tasks. We worked with Prof Antoniol and his team for a long time on this topic and it was definitely worth it! Best, Markus Other related references: * Di Penta, M., M. Neteler, G. Antoniol, E. Merlo, 2005: A Language-Independent Software Renovation Framework. Journal of Systems and Software, 77(3), pp. 225-240. (IF 2005: 0.744), http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.140.4762&rep=rep1&type=pdf * Antoniol, G., M. Di Penta, and M. Neteler, 2003. Moving to smaller libraries via clustering and genetic algorithms. In CSMR 2003, 7th IEEE European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, Proc. IEEE Computer Society, 307-316, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.58.988&rep=rep1&type=pdf * Di Penta, M. Neteler, G. Antoniol and E. Merlo, 2002. Knowledge Based Library Refactoring for an Open Source Project. IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering WCRE, Oct. 28 – Nov. 1, Richmond, Virginia, USA. Proc. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 319-328., http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.4.4165&rep=rep1&type=pdf -- Markus Neteler, PhD https://www.mundialis.de - free data with free software https://grass.osgeo.org https://courses.neteler.org/blog _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev