Thanks for bringing this up, Miro. On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 3:03 PM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > - there are ~200 build failures that block this, tracked on [bugzilla] I did a spot check of a few of the BZs and it looks like some of those build failures are unrelated to Python 3.8 but are due to other dependencies. Do you have a good sense of how many of the failures are due to Python 3.8 and how many are coincidental? > Benefits: > - we would not be stressed by the immediate mass rebuild deadline > - we would not need to care about ABI incompatibilities between beta releases, > because the last beta should be out when we start > > Negatives: > - the users would get 3.8 as the main python3 about 6 months later, but they > already have Python 3.8 interpreter in Fedora to develop on > >From my perspective, it's worth waiting until F32 to avoid the potential for important changes in a key package. I don't see anything in the upstream feature set[1] that would justify the risk we'd be subjecting ourselves (particularly the QA team) to. [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0569/#features-for-3-8 -- Ben Cotton He / Him / His Fedora Program Manager Red Hat TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
