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Hi,

   I'll be helping out victor too on the changes , and will try to do as
much as possible on it. :)

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:12 PM, John Dickinson <me at not.mn> wrote:

> Victor,
>
> Thank you for working on this. Please don't give up on this work! I'll be
> asking others to look at these patches, and I'll try to look, myself, soon.
>
> For the dependencies (pyeclib), we'll get those as we can. The first
> priority is getting the Swift code, which we control, squared away. Then as
> the dependencies are able to support py3, we'll have the gate passing and
> can set it to voting.
>
> --John
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Jul 7, 2015, at 3:40 AM, Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have 9 pending patches to fix Python 3 issues in Swift, but they
> didn't get much attention yet. Most of these patches replace a pattern with
> a new pattern to add Python 3 support in addition to Python 2 support.
> >
> >
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:%22Victor+Stinner%22+status:open+project:openstack/swift,n,z
> >
> > The problem is that these patches are long, and so it's common to get
> conflicts. It takes me a lot of time just to rebase these patches.
> > Only "Replace dict.iteritems() with dict.items()" got a +2 yet.
> >
> > I hesitate to simply give up on porting Swift to Python 3, to focus on
> other projects which are faster to review my Python 3 patches (ceilometer,
> cinder, glance, keystone, nova).
> >
> > Maybe I took the wrong strategy for Swift. Instead of replacing a
> pattern in the whole Swift project, I should maybe try to port tests one by
> one to have shorter patches?
> >
> > My last try fix "tox -e py34" in a single patch:
> > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/199034/
> >
> > Practical issue: it depends on my pyeclib pull request that I sent 3
> months ago...
> >
> > If this Swift "Fix tox -e py34" patch is merged, my pyeclib pull request
> is merged, and a new version of pyeclib including my fix is released, it
> will become possible to make the gate-swift-python34 voting to avoid Python
> 3 regressions. It should be nice milestone to start with shorter patches.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Victor
> >
> >
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