Hi Everyone, the python3 support poll has run its on https://twitter.com/ossronny/status/1043837215175057408
The results have a interesting shape. 37% now 09% with 3.4 mid 2019 38% with the python 2.7 eol 16% a year after py 2.7 eol 468 votes in the final result. Its my belief that a increase of the of the sample size wouldn't have changed the outcome of the poll. I observed it rather quickly normalizing into that shape. I consider the 2 peaks important indications of the desires and considerations of people. By my own wishes i'd just go ahead and drop python2 as well, but i don't consider 37% of the community sample to be enough to warrant something with such drastic effects right now. When summing up with the ~9% of the "with 3.4" and also weighting in the larger time-frame and my impression about the rounding twitter uses we get a subjective number of ~49%+-1%. Which i consider a good context for dropping the "general support for python3". So together with support for python3.4 i want pytest to drop support for python2 for the general development. As for maintenance branches for python2 - i proposed the setup in an earlier mail and i would like to make a basic outline for its support. the pytest core developers should actively support, maintain and backport to this branch until python2.7 goes eol, at that point we should transition the python2 maintenance involvement from the core developers from active to passive. Meaning that instead of actively working on porting changes and pushing releases, we instead support the wider community with needs to bring in changes they require and support them with review and releasing. I believe half a year is more than enough to stabilize and sort out the 2.7 maintenance branch, but should i be demonstrated wrong by how this unfolds i'm happy to have this extend this for another year. But for anything after that the bulk of the python2.x maintenance work should be left on the shoulders of companies and individuals that have an actual requirement for that. -- Ronny _______________________________________________ pytest-dev mailing list pytest-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev
