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Best Regards Lai On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 10:39 AM Lin Yuan <apefor...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 10:04 AM Xingjian SHI <xsh...@connect.ust.hk> > wrote: > > > +1. We should move to support Python>=3.5 only. > > > > Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > > ________________________________ > > From: Lausen, Leonard <lau...@amazon.com.INVALID> > > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020 10:02:30 AM > > To: d...@mxnet.apache.org <d...@mxnet.apache.org> > > Subject: Re: MXNet 1.6 as last release with Python 2 support? > > > > If the lazy consensus passes, I believe the minimum Python version > > supported > > would be Python 3.5. > > > > Python 3.5 because it seems to be the minimum Python 3 version tested by > > our CI, > > specifically in the jobs running on Ubuntu 16.04. > > > > Best regards > > Leonard > > > > On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 17:36 +0000, Lausen, Leonard wrote: > > > Dear MXNet community, > > > > > > as effective January 1, 2020, no new bug reports, fixes, or changes > will > > be > > > made > > > to Python 2, and as MXNet 1.6 will be released after January 1, 2020, I > > > suggest > > > to announce in the MXNet 1.6 release notes that MXNet 1.6 is the last > > release > > > supporting Python 2. > > > > > > We have previously reached consensus on announcing that Python 2 is > > dropped in > > > the next major release (ie. MXNet 2), however, given the delay in 1.6 > > release, > > > the plan to release 1.7 in the future and that Python 2 is dead > already I > > > think > > > we can revisit this assumption. > > > > > > Advantages are > > > - Time savings for developers, as Python 3 standard library contains > more > > > features than Python 2, and it is more efficient to target only 1 > > language > > > (Python 3) instead of 2 languages (Python 2 & 3) > > > - Simplification and cost savings for CI > > > > > > I thus suggest 72h lazy consensus for announcing dropping of Python 2 > as > > > described above. If you disagree, please veto (send "-1") and we can > > continue > > > supporting Python 2 in all 1.x releases as per previous consensus. Note > > that > > > at > > > the time of previous consensus, no 1.7 release was planned. > > > > > > Best regards > > > Leonard > > >
