[openstack-dev] Official Python 3 Policy

Joe Gordon joe.gordon0 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 12 16:56:43 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>wrote:

> Julien Danjou wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 11 2013, Joe Gordon wrote:
> >> As many of you have probably seen, there has been a community
> >> effort to begin the slow process to making OpenStack python 3
> >> compatible. There is even a weekly meeting discussion it (
> >> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/python3/2013/)
> >>
> >> As this is inherently a massive cross project effort, I was
> >> hoping the TC would comment on the python 3 efforts.
> >>
> >> * What versions of python we want to compatible with * Do we
> >> *want* all projects to by python 3 compatible or should we focus
> >> our efforts on oslo and client libraries etc? * Do we want to
> >> begin gating on some python 3 compatibility?
> >>
> https://github.com/openstack-dev/hacking/commit/e0ab03637da65bfc6035091989b62fc70ae363a5
> >>
> >>
> >
> > It kind of seems obvious to me that nobody in the TC is going to
> > object to any effort bringing compatibility to Python 3. :-) I
> > bless that and would love to help going into this direction
> > actually.
>
> Yeah, I don't really think you need the TC involved at this point...
> discussion on -dev and lazy consensus should work perfectly alright.
> If you end up facing opposition and we end up needing to pick between
> going Py3 and not going Py3, I guess that would warrant a TC
> discussion, but I don't expect we'll ever come to that. The few times
> it was mentioned in the past there was unanimous support for it...
> just not enough resources to drive it.
>

Thank you all for the feedback, this addressed my underlying question, is
there consensus on py3 before we start adding several hacking checks for it
in hacking 0.6.


>
> Happy to see the effort getting more momentum!
>
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>
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