I would prefer that "python" by default means Python 3 ASAP (on all platforms if I had my way), and all packages requiring Python 2 should explicitly require Python 2, and use python2 binary. Whatever happens should be agreed on as a policy, clearly defining the intent of the community, and then we can evaluate the gaps. Then we can agree on strategies to bridge the gaps.

Maybe organize a hackathon at a PyCon to deal with the massive backlog of bugs and give the maintainers some code reviewed pull requests? There's a couple of PyCons between now and then, at least.


On Wed, Apr 19, 2017, 11:29 Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>>>> "CS" == Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> writes:

CS> I would argue here that it is more of maintenance burden, trying to
CS> keep a SPEC file synced between distros, than having a different
CS> SPEC for each branch.

You might argue that, and I've been arguing it for years, but in the end
the maintainer makes that decision.

CS> There are even SPECs that use suse macros in order to keep the same
CS> SPEC pretty much everywhere,

That is forbidden in Fedora.

CS> and while it might be an interesting work to do, I do not really see
CS> any advantages from the packager's POV.

Well, the "fedpkg switch-branch epel7; git merge master" workflow is
rather convenient.  It's hard to argue against that.

 - J<
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