On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > The ** POINT ** of producing such a report is to 'put > > numbers' on the scope of the work rather than loose armwaving > > assertions such as: > > > > > Fedora still has more than 3000 packages depending on > > > python2 – many more than we can support without upstream > > > help. > > Those are real Fedora numbers [0]. No armwaving involved. > > 1311 python2 only packages > 1734 python2+python3 packages > + 88 with packaging problem where I'm not sure > > That is something between 3045 and 3133. That can be rounded to 3k. > > No idea why we moved the discussion to another list as well, but stop accusing > us from armwaving. We have data (for Fedora, because that where we started the > discussion). As for RHEL/EPEL: current ones can remain as they are. Future > ones see [1]. "accusing" ? I think it is pretty clear that more than a little projection is going on here. I offered a description of methodology, hard numbers on six archives, and the generation script to nail down numbers. Before your most recent email, .... nope The _reason_ that it was off an EPEL thread (EPEL of course being PART OF FEDORAPROJECT, last time I looked) is that is the harder one to solve, and also there was a thread going as to planning a meeting, of which that hard data was a part If I go to a car dealer and seek to buy a car and ask a price, and am told by the salesperson: "more than 3000" dollars they have not yet not told me a price they will sell the car at -- Russ herrold _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/E4FYVZMRWLMIQ6L7PIJMBV6R2K4GMD7C/
