On Wed 02 Dec 2015 12:14:42 PM CET Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > Good morning everyone, > > I would like to start gathering our thoughts about python3 in our apps. > > To my knowledge, we currently have two applications that are python3 (only): > - Mailman3 core (as in hyperkitty is still py2) > - mdapi > > Both are *not* running via apache/mod_wsgi. MM3 runs on RHEL7 while mdapi runs > on a Fedora node for the moment. > > So, what do we think about python3 app in our infrastructure? Are we ok with > it? Do we want to avoid them for the moment? Do we want to split 'backend' vs > 'frontend' (ie web-apps)? > > What brings me to raise these questions is that I have spent my morning getting > pagure to run on pygit2 0.23.0 (the version present on F23) so that I can > upgrade my laptop still running F21 atm. > The result of this work is not pretty: https://pagure.io/pagure/pull-request/516 > (and might still require some work, just the tests are passing at the moment, I > would not be surprised if I missed some things in the templates). > I am more and more thinking about replacing pygit2 and a friend of mine is > developing a potentially really interesting alternative: maggit: > https://gitlab.com/maggit/maggit > However, maggit is python3 only. > But the pain of dealing with pygit2 is such that I have been considering looking > more into maggit and maybe porting pagure to it (which means porting pagure to > python3, already checked, all of its dependencies are py3 ready). > > Before I consider such effort (which would be a 2.0 release), I want to clarify > the status of python3 web-apps. > > So what do you folks think? :) Not part of Fedora infra of course, but my thoughts are that * Fedora infra was relatively recently migrated to RHEL 7 * RHEL 7 has python 2.7 * Basically all current infra is 2.x * It seems there will be progressive move of Python ecosystem towards py3 over the course of RHEL 7 lifetime I would venture a guess that we (that is you our lovely Fedora infra folks) will need to come up with py3 strategy/plan sooner or later (whether it's EPEL or RHSCL or...) -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> Business System Analyst, PnT DevOps PMO Team - Brno PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
