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> On Apr 30, 2020, at 10:53 PM, Ghanshyam Mann <gmann at ghanshyammann.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Please find the final status for the py2.7 drop goal. Finally, it is COMPLETED!! 
> With this (after three continuous cycles), I am taking a break from community goals (at least for V cycle :))!!.
> 
> Wiki page is updated: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Python3
> I have added the 'Python3 Only' column here https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Python3#Python_3_Status_of_OpenStack_projects
> 
> Completion Report:
> ===============
> * Swift & Storlets are the two projects keeping py2.7 support.
> 
> * All projects have completed the goal and now are python3-only.
> 
> * It has been another roller coaster :) and I appreciate everyone helped in this work and
> all the projects reviewing the patches on time with few exceptions :). 
> 
> * A Lot of gate issues occurred and fixed during this transition especially making branchless
> tooling testing the mixed python version ( stable branch on py2 and other on py3).
> 
> * I finished the audit for all the projects. requirement repo will be cleaning up the py2 caps in Victoria cycle[1].
> 
> 
> Some ongoing work on deployement projects repo or unmaintained repo:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> These are dpendendant on other work for testing framework etc. This can be continued and need
> not to be tracked under this goal.
> * python-barbicanclient: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/699096/
> ** This repo seems unmaintained for last 6 months and the gate is already broken.
> * Openstack Charms - Most of them merged, few are waiting for the team to migrate to Python3 Zaza functional test framework.
> * Openstackansible - This will finish once centos jobs will be migrated to Centos8.
> * Openstack-Helm - No conclusion yet from help team on what else to do for py2 drop.
> 
> -gmann
> 

Congratulations!

Moving to python 3 has been a multi-year process, but it shows that we can make significant maintenance-oriented changes like this when the community works together.

Thank you for seeing this last phase of the work through to completion, Ghanshyam.

Doug