On 1/16/19 4:54 PM, ceph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > My 2 cents: > - do drop python2 support I wouldn't agree. Python 2 needs to be dropped. > - do not drop python2 support unexpectedly, aka do a deprecation phase > Indeed. Deprecate it at the Nautilus release and drop it after N. Write blogs, post on the ML, Tweet about, e-mail everybody you know about the fact that Ceph is dropping Python 2 support after N. Dropping it in N without a deprecation period doesn't seem like a good idea. Wido > People should already know that python2 is dead > That is not enough, though, to remove that "by surprise" > > Regards, > > On 01/16/2019 04:45 PM, Sage Weil wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> This has come up several times before, but we need to make a final >> decision. Alfredo has a PR prepared that drops Python 2 support entirely >> in master, which will mean nautilus is Python 3 only. >> >> All of our distro targets (el7, bionic, xenial) include python 3, so that >> isn't an issue. However, it also means that users of python-rados, >> python-rbd, and python-cephfs will need to be using python 3. >> >> Python 2 is on its way out, and has been for years. See >> >> https://pythonclock.org/ >> >> If it don't kill it in Nautilus, we'll be doing it for Octopus. >> >> Are there major python-{rbd,cephfs,rgw,rados} users that are still Python >> 2 that we need to be worried about? (OpenStack?) >> >> sage >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list >> ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >> > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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