----- Original Message ----- > From: "R P Herrold" <herrold@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 8:57:11 PM > Subject: Re: Intent to orphan Python 2 > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > > On 23.3.2018 12:23, Petr Viktorin wrote: > > > tl;dr: Unless someone steps up to maintain Python 2 after 2020, we need > > > to start dropping python2 packages now. > > tl;dr: --- that statement by itself overlooks the obvious. > Not ALL packages become unsupported that first day of that > year > > > > Python 2.7 will reach end of upstream support on 1st of January, 2020, > > > after almost 10 years (!) of volunteer maintenance. > > Not to be too direct about this, but isn't the RHEL 6 primary > maintenance date (through 2020 11 30) a closer maintenance > depot to look at and to compare against ? > I don't see how that relates to Fedora. Could you elaborate on what you mean? > Packages NOT in RHEL have a closer date, perhaps, but RHEL > (next, assumedly 8, but ...) has not dropped yet. A > subscription customer _should_ be migrating toward 7 at this > point, but as this is not a costless thing, such migrations > tend to be ... with a deliberate pace > Agreed but yet again, this doesn't like something that would impact Fedora. > -- Russ herrold > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to 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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/V6TXSNJ7ER4SBK2D6L4BWU7YLLARJE7T/ > -- Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to 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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/DAHZTVERHGRCASAXAL5UOBXJQE5SDSLR/
