Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013 01:32:49 UTC+2 schrieb Lex Trotman: > > On 1 January 2013 20:20, Stuart Rackham <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > this path than me. My problem with the Python 3 thing is that I can't > > think of a single reason I (emphasis on "I") would want to other than > > "gee, that would be nice", so I'm not planning to roll my sleeves up any > > time soon on this one. > > Hi Stuart and Lex,
short term python 3 migration seems crucial to me for the success of asciidoc. Why? System admins do not like to have several Python versions on their servers. If we had a python 3 version it would be easy to install asciidoc aside with other markup languages. Markup languages are getting more and more popular as the are offered on many sites for cooperate online editing. A python 3 version would significantly increase the availability of asciidoc and thus it's popularity. Asciidoc is well documented and the cheat-sheet is a very good start for beginners. In addition a life editor (like http://sourceforge.net/p/retext/home/ReText/) would ease the learning of asciidoc and contribute to increase its popularity also. These tools already rely on python 3. We discussed the topic here: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/asciidoc/0p8l1qD8-40/discussion Besides time and motivation who could migrate the code to python 3? Of course there are many python gurus out there. Maybe it is possible to find someone able to do it. Although a big part of the process can be automated, there is a risk introducing a bunch of regression bugs. Therefore the migration should be preferably done by the asciidoc core team, knowing the code well enough to identify the critical parts in advance. As I understand the asciidoc core team is Stuart and Lex? I imagine it is mainly a matter of time and resources, so maybe it is possible to delegate some of your tasks to someone else? For example code maintenance could be done without knowing all implementation details. Documentation also. Then you would have more time to concentrate on more strategical tasks like migration ;) Cheers Jens -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/asciidoc/-/YLPmeKc_JrAJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
