On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > ----- 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? EPEL. Many of us use EPEL, with components from Fedora backported to our working environments. It's been an invaluable resource. Me? I just got a good look at openstack,, as well, which solved a *lot* of problems for me trying to bring some modules for communicating with proprietary data appliances into a RHEL environment. It's part of why so many Python modules have bothered to maintain Python 2 and Python 3 versions. >> 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. A lot of us use Fedora as a testing ground for our commercial work for the more RHEL and CentOS, and a source of bleeding edge tools. Good open source work is usually open to supporting multiple environments, so it's worth a thought. _______________________________________________ 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/B6JMDJXD44BF3I7J5WKOTYRXYBJKVNXP/
