On Monday, October 05, 2015 11:49:01 AM Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Oct 04, 2015, at 08:03 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > >am I the only one thinking it's quite a huge number to be handled by > >hand? and whose hands will be the ones converting these packages? > >yours or Barry's dont seem enough and others will need training/time. > > I'm happy to pitch in if a maintainer needs help doing so. I'd like to at > least capture the manual steps needed on the GitPackaging page. I'm not > sure if there is enough commonality to make that worthwhile, but there > might be. > >Additionally, now we are in the middle of the 3.5 transition, and so > >packages will need updating rather quickly: are we sure this is the > >best time to push full throttle with the migration? I'd rather wait a > >little bit longer and have a more automatic migration at a calmer > >moment for python modules. > > Waiting longer isn't an option IMHO. It's helping to add to the dysfunction > of the team. I will also offer to help if the 3.5 transition gets stuck > because of the git conversion.
The first phase of the transition is almost done (92% or so), so I don't think that it's a valid reason to hold things up. In fact, from a transition perspective, ~now is good so it can all be settled out before we want to make python3.5 default. Scott K
