[gentoo-dev] News item review: Python 3.6 to become the default target

[Michał Górny]

Hello, everyone.

Please review the following news item. The 'xx'-es will be replaced with
the publication date, making the deadline appropriately pub + 1 month.

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Title: Python 3.6 to become the default target
Author: Michał Górny 
Posted: 2018-05-xx
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: dev-lang/python:3.5

On 2018-06-xx, Python 3.6 will replace Python 3.5 in the default Python
targets for Gentoo systems.  The new default targets will be:

PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6"
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6"

If you have not overriden the value of those variables on your system,
then your package manager will want to use the new targets immediately.
In order to prevent dependency conflicts, please clean stray packages
and rebuild/upgrade all packages with USE flag changes after the change,
e.g.:

emerge --depclean
emerge -1vUD @world
emerge --depclean

Please note that upgrading dependencies in place may cause some
of the package dependencies to be temporarily missing.  While this
should not affect scripts that are already fully loaded, it may cause
ImportErrors while starting Python scripts or loading additional
modules (only scripts running Python 3.5 are affected).

In order to improve stability of the upgrade, you may choose to
temporarily enable both targets, i.e. set in /etc/portage/make.conf
or its equivalent:

PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5 python3_6"
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5"

This will cause the dependencies to include both Python 3.5 and 3.6
support on the next system upgrade.  Once all packages are updated,
you can restart your scripts, remove the custom setting and run another
upgrade to remove support for Python 3.5.

If you would like to postpone the switch to Python 3.6, you can copy
the current value of PYTHON_TARGETS and/or PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET
to /etc/portage/make.conf or its equivalent:

PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5"
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5"

If you would like to migrate your systems earlier, you can do the same
with the new value.

If you are still using Python 3.4, please consider switching to a newer
version as it is reaching its end-of-life.  The end-of-life dates
for the currently used versions are:

  Python 3.42019-03-16
  Python 2.72020-01-01
  Python 3.52020-09-13 [1]

[1]:https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

[gentoo-dev] Python 3.5 -> 3.6 switch

[Michał Górny]

Hi, everyone.

In no less than 30 days, we will be switching the default Python targets
from CPython 3.5 to 3.6.  The new values will be:

  PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6"
  PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6"

If you haven't ported your package to Python 3.6, please look into doing
it now.  Helpful lists:

 packages missing python3.6 support:
  list:  https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/35-to-36.txt
  graph: https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/35-to-36.svg

 packages needing stabilization:
  l https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/35-to-36-stablereq.txt
  g https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/35-to-36-stablereq.svg

At the same time, I'd like to remind you that Python 3.4 reaches end-of-
life in March 2019.  For more details, see [1].

I'll submit a news item for users for review today.  The switch will be
postponed to account for its publication.

[1]:https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

Re: [gentoo-dev] Openstack Summit MeetUp: dinner planning for Wednesday?

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 01:11:30PM -0700, Jack Morgan wrote:
> Gentoo,
> 
> I will be attending the Openstack Summit in Vancouver, BC. The
> conference is May 21-24th. I would like to organize a Gentoo meetup for
> those attending or living in the area. I personally will be there from
> May 20th - 26th.
> 
> Please reply if you are interested in meeting and which day(s)/time(s)
> you are available. I'm looking forward to it!
I'm Vancouver-local, and will ALSO be attending the summit.

Available for events during the daytime during the conference, and also
evenings of Monday & Wednesday. I am NOT available on the evenings.

As a note, Monday is a (provincial) public holiday in Vancouver, and you
may find a lot of restaurants closed (more than the ones that are
usually closed Mondays).

Unless there are specific objections, let's try to plan the meetup for
Wednesday evening based on the above?

I can help to arrange a dinner outing Wednesday evening. If you're
interested, privately email me. Please include a mention of specific
dietary requirements if any.

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer
E-Mail   : robb...@gentoo.org
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Openstack Summit MeetUp

[Nicolas Bock]

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 01:11:30PM -0700, Jack Morgan wrote:

Gentoo,

I will be attending the Openstack Summit in Vancouver, BC. The
conference is May 21-24th. I would like to organize a Gentoo meetup for
those attending or living in the area. I personally will be there from
May 20th - 26th.

Please reply if you are interested in meeting and which day(s)/time(s)
you are available. I'm looking forward to it!


Hi Jack,

Great idea! I'll be in Vancouver from May 20th - 24th. I am available anytime 
except during a workshop on Wednesday morning from 9:00 to 10:30.

Thanks!

Nick


Thanks,
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Jack Morgan
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Nicolas Bock 


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-dev whitelisting

[Sam Jorna]

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 02:57:19PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
>The whitelist automatically whitelists all @[2]gentoo.org addresses.

I think those who have editbugs would also be good candidates for
implicit whitelisting as well.

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[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/ekopath

[Michał Górny]

# Michał Górny  (14 May 2018)
# All current releases do not install, as well as the latest nightly
# build upstream (dated July 2017).  Last upstream activity around
# May 2017.  Masked for removal in 30 days.  Bug #638478.
dev-lang/ekopath

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-dev whitelisting

[Paweł Hajdan , Jr .]

On 14/05/2018 07:35, Michał Górny wrote:
> W dniu nie, 13.05.2018 o godzinie 17∶28 -0400, użytkownik Alec Warner
> napisał:
>> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. 
>> wrote:
>>> I'm wondering,
>>>  currently
>>> says for me "No repositories found".
>>
>> Its not a public repo, so it isn't listed. If you think it should be
>> public, ask council; its a 1 line config change on our side.
>>
> I don't think publishing it is a good idea.  Spammers are going to love
> the easy list of e-mail addresses.  Also GDPR may apply.

Good points. Nevermind.

Paweł



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