2009/3/18 Arc Riley <arcri...@gmail.com> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I think we need to ask first guys who spend their live maintaining >> libraries instead of just proposing "let's make some poor student port >> it to py3k", but I might be just wrong, I don't know. > > > I agree. Part of Summer of Code is about getting students involved so they > stick around, and heck my second SoC student is still with our project as > the #2 committer, but he's an exception. > > Also, we need the projects involved to want the tasks done by a student. > As a project maintainer I wouldn't want an intern being the most familiar > person with our Py3 migration, I'd rather students stick with new features > or optimization and coordinate the migration process as a group-wide effort. > > I added the 2to3 improvement idea to the list, a good start :-) We need a > couple more at least. > > If a 3to2 tool (for backporting Py3 code to Py2, so projects can develop > primarily in Py3?)
Exactly. The semantics are cleaner in 3.x, suggesting it would be easier to backport it to 2.x. > is something that's wanted, who would be a good mentor for it? Benjamin has done the most work on 2to3 recently. Thomas Wouters originally came up with the idea for 3to2 but I suspect he doesn't want to mentor. -Brett
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