Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 1:38 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> So this will have the effect of making the docs build impossible for >> folks who only have Python 2. > > Is this a problem? Python 2 is EOL. > > Everybody who wants to use Python > must install Python 3. I honestly don't know, but people do keep things around for a surprisingly long time. >> As I said before, this is a step that we >> knew was coming, we just hadn't decided on the exact timing - I guess >> this decides for us :) >> >> That said, I'll copy linux-doc to see if anybody screams. I assume this >> is a 5.12 change? > > No, I am planning to do this for 5.11 > (a pull request this week if there is no objection). I'm not going to truly object and try to block this, but I worry that it's soon and without warning. It's not a change I would merge for -rc7. IMO this should be done in 5.12 with an appropriate note added to Documentation/process/changes.rst as well. Thanks, jon
