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Victor Stinner wrote:
> Good news, we made good progress last weeks on porting Swift to Python
> 3, a few changes were merged and all dependencies now work on Python 3.
> We only need two more simple changes to have a working pyhon34 check job:
> 
> * "py3: Update pbr and dnspython requirements"
>   https://review.openstack.org/#/c/217423/
> * "py3: Add py34 test environment to tox"
>   https://review.openstack.org/#/c/199034/
> 
> With these changes, it will be possible to make the python34 check job
> voting to avoid Python 3 regressions. It's very important to avoid
> regressions, so we cannot go backward again in Python 3 support.
> 
> On IRC, it was said that it's better to merge Python 3 changes at the
> beginning of the Mitaka cycle, because Python 3 requires a lot of small
> changes which can likely introduce (subtle) bugs, and it's better to
> catch them early during the development cycle.
> 
> John Dickinson prefers incremental and small changes, whereas clayg
> looks to like giant patches to fix all Python 3 issues at once to avoid
> conflicts in other (non-Python3) changes. (Sorry, if I didn't summarized
> correctly the discussion we had yesterday.)
> 
> The problem is that it's hard to fix "all" Python 3 issues in a single
> patch, the patch would be super giant and just impossible to review.
> It's also annoying to have to write dozens of small patches: we loose
> time on merge conflicts, rebasing, random gate failures, etc.
> 
> I proposed a first patch serie of 6 changes to fix a lot of simple
> Python 3 issues "at once":
> [...]
> 
> The overall diff is impressive: "61 files changed, 233 insertions(+),
> 189 deletions(-)" ... but each change is quite simple. It's only one
> pattern replaced with a different pattern. For example, replace
> "unicode" with "six.text_type" (and add "import six" if needed). So
> these changes should be easy to review.
> 
> With a working (and voting?) python34 check job and these 6 changes, it
> will be (much) easier to work on porting Swift to Python 3. Following
> patches will be validated by the python34 check job, shorter and
> restricted to a few files.
> 
> Victor

That's great news. Thanks so much for your tireless efforts to get
Python 3 supported everywhere in OpenStack, Victor !

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)