hashar added a comment.
//I am just a lurker but still have some kind of interest in pywikibot from time to time. Here some feedback based on a couple decades of IT// I would highly recommend to avoid creating a new repository (such as what has been done for compat). That loose all history and confuses people as to which repo should really be used. Instead I would propose you tag a last version of pywikibot that still support python 2.7 and make it extremely clear that is the last ever release to support python 2.7. Then have master branch to only be tested with python3. Done? If your concern is people not switching/upgrading to python3, that surely can be made easier by having some tutorials (eg use `python3` not `python`, how to install python3 etc). Regardless they can still use the last version still tested with python 2.7. > Pywikibot meetup group only agreed that we should not break user scripts and cronjobs running on py2 by deprecation steps. Could we find a better (and still not breaking) solution? The way to achieve that is for users to keep the version they are currently running. If they want the latest bugfix and features, they would have to switch to python3. In all honesty it is not that complicated to handle. In both case (1) creating a new repo like 'compat' (2) keeping compatibility with 2.7, you are going to have troubles having users to actively migrate and would still drag the python2.7 support for months and months. At some point, you should force users to migrate and break the back compatibility. And again, the migration is not that complicated, just install python3? Anyway T226507#5283686 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226507#5283686> sounds like a sane and safe plan. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226507 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: hashar Cc: matej_suchanek, Frettie, Geertivp, Tobias1984, Chicocvenancio, Ladsgroup, Aklapper, pywikibot-bugs-list, zhuyifei1999, hashar, D3r1ck01, Lokal_Profil, Framawiki, valhallasw, Multichill, Mpaa, Dvorapa, Dalba, Xqt, Viztor, DannyS712, Wenyi, Tbscho, MayS, Mdupont, JJMC89, Altostratus, Avicennasis, mys_721tx, jayvdb, Masti, Alchimista, Rxy
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