[pytest-dev] Results of the "drop python 3" poll and what i envision to do about it

2018-10-01 Thread RonnyPfannschmidt
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 tha

[pytest-dev] the requirement for enabling repeated and successive api breakages

2018-10-01 Thread RonnyPfannschmidt
Hi everyone, yesterday i tried yet again to reshape node structure to allow the integration of function-definition. every time i work with something around those structures it becomes apparent, that its immensely fragile to work within it with backward compat in mind, its so deeply cross-related t

Re: [pytest-dev] Results of the "drop python 3" poll and what i envision to do about it

2018-10-01 Thread Bruno Oliveira
Hi Ronny, On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 5:01 AM RonnyPfannschmidt < opensou...@ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote: > 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

Re: [pytest-dev] Results of the "drop python 3" poll and what i envision to do about it

2018-10-01 Thread Ronny Pfannschmidt
Hi Bruno, Am Montag, den 01.10.2018, 08:13 -0300 schrieb Bruno Oliveira: > Hi Ronny, > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 5:01 AM RonnyPfannschmidt < > opensou...@ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > > > the python3 support poll has run its on > > > > https://twitter.com/ossronny/s

Re: [pytest-dev] Results of the "drop python 3" poll and what i envision to do about it

2018-10-01 Thread Bruno Oliveira
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 8:22 AM Ronny Pfannschmidt < opensou...@ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote: > > In the plan i outlined, the first python 3 only release would be the one > that drops 3.4 mid-2019 - at that point in time the maintenance branch > would be prepared before release merge time. > I see,

Re: [pytest-dev] the requirement for enabling repeated and successive api breakages

2018-10-01 Thread Bruno Oliveira
Hi Ronny, >From my POV breaking those internal APIs slowly and with warnings in place is fine, just like it was done with the "marks" API. I suspect that the internal Node creation API sees even less usage than marks, so I think it is fine to break it slowly and with proper warnings in place. On