----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin(a)scrye.com>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:11:36 PM
Subject: Re: F23 System Wide Change: Python 3 as Default
Greetings.
In today's FESCo meeting we had a lot of discussion about this change.
You can read the meeting yourself in:
http://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-06-17/fesco.2015...
Speaking only for myself here:
I am very happy we are moving more things to python3 and I appreciate
it's a lot of work and effort. :)
I don't think we should use the word 'default' in this change unless we
define really what that means. It seems like it means different things
to different people.
It would be great to come up with an "finished" state for this, but I
don't know what it would really be. When all our tools used to build
Fedora are ported? When no python2 depending packages are in repos?
When python2 is no longer shipped?
It is written in a scope what does 'default' stands for.
Also from a additional porting POV (packages which ain't covered by scope
and are python2 only) it is important to have stated that the default python
for Fedora is python3 as it will help (a bit at least) as leverage for those
who are reluctant to port their codebase to python3.
After we get this change through we may focus on additional porting in next fedora
releases (new system wide change [if needed] for fedora packaging tools for example)
and again, use the already accepted fact about python3 being the default fedora python.
From my POV it is very important to keep the 'default' in the
change name.
My 2 cents.
--
Robert Kuska
{rkuska}