On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 11:21:46PM -0600, Neville A. Cross wrote: > From my point of view, Brno has most of the people (if not all) > working on this porting. So, having some face to face time to engage > in this initiative outside Brno will help distribute the load to > other palces. This will facilitating future FADs on this topic, > those can be done regionally with online support form Brno. I know that Python 3 is important to Red Hat. (Doing the math here, Python 2.x is scheduled to be end-of-life forever in 2020. Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifetimes for the past releases go over a decade with extended support options. RHEL 7 was released just last year, and I think it's no secret to say that Red Hat is likely to release something else _before_ 2020, and releasing that with Python 3 and not Python 2 would be nice. (In fact, this was even in Denise Dumas's slides at Flock: http://www.slideshare.net/mattdm-fedora/flock-2015-what-does-red-hat-want/11) So, if there is wide community interest in the same thing, and budget and conflicting priorities willing, I'm in support of spending Fedora community money for external-to-RH community members to collaborate on this. > The only PyCon that I have been was in 2011 and everybody was saying > something along the lines of: "Python 3 is okey if they don't touch > my stuff". Despite the time passed, Python 3 is not the default > version. I think if advancing version number in Python is going to > happen, needs some championship to make it happen (the "first" > value). The number of packages having double version is increasing. > The burden to maintain those duplicates is time consuming. Time that > can be more useful allocated to develop new things instead of work > keeping backward compatibility. Cool, thanks for the input. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/council-discuss The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
