I am happy to help porting things. I did it for a number of non trivial packages and happy to do more. It's very soothing experience and better than knitting & sudoku. On 15 Apr 2015 2:29 pm, "Paul Tagliamonte" <paul...@debian.org> wrote:
> Heyya d-p, > > I'd like to send an email to d-d-a asking that project to consider no > longer creating new Debian tools in Python 2. > > I'd like this to have the endorsement of the team, so, does anyone object > to > me asking people to not write new tools in Python 2 only (prefer > alternative > deps or porting), and only use Python 2 in very special curcumstances or > for legacy codebases (perhaps a pitch to move to Python 3), along with a > note that we plan to deprecate Python 2 when upstream support is gone > (2020), which puts us on track for two cycles (Buster) > > > I'll make note of a team which should exist to help with such porting, > (I'm up to help with this) that was one of the items that came out of > the PyCon chit-chat. I got the sense from the room that this would be > OK, but just checking if anyone here has a substantive objection. > > If not, I'll send that out later on today/tomorow. > > > Thanks! > Paul > > -- > .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer > : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 > `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag > `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt >
