Hi Amber - Notwithstanding the fact that VFX/Anim will be stuck on PY2 for a few more years, this all sounds very reasonable. None of the proposed timelines would cause problems for my team.
Many thanks DJM On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 10:15, Amber Brown <hawk...@atleastfornow.net> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Since the Python 2 EOL date is rapidly approaching, I thought it was > time we consider dropping Python 2 support. > > I personally find that Python 2 compat adds a huge amount of overhead > when working on and maintaining Twisted, and think that with the current > maintainer availability, dropping it sooner rather than later would have > a beneficial effect on how much work we spend on shims/compat, > complexity, and our ability to ship new features, as well as onboarding > people who are interested in the project, but have no interest (or > experience!) in Python 2.7. > > It is basically summed up by doing a feature freeze on an agreed-upon > version of Twisted, that will be the last version released for 2.7. It > would be abnormal in that it would get security fixes (our current > policy is to only release them for current versions) and critical > bugfixes, but would otherwise be frozen. > > One of my rationales is that from some analysis of PyPI download > statistics, the vast majority of Python 2 users are using old versions > of Twisted, while nearly all our Python 3 users are on the latest > version. As such, I believe freezing a version that will get security > updates but no new features would not be a massive loss to those stuck > on Python 2 for whatever reason. > > Twisted's compatibility policy would still apply, ensuring that Python > 2/3 compatible software using Twisted would be able to use the older > Twisted version on Python 2, and the newer version on Python 3, as you > would usually expect. > > You can find the proposal here, in this handy-dandy Google Doc: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S4CGgZC09blLIdk3Zo7wBa75A9_JuuH_3akkyjN0lik/edit > > Comments are welcome, as well as which timeline seems reasonable. > > - Amber > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > https://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python >
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