Upstream python 3 porting efforts

[David Malcolm]

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On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 11:33 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> For those who aren't also subscribed to the python-dev mailing list :-),
> Dave and Neal's posts about fpconst sparked some interest in porting work
> there.  Talking with Barry Warsaw we'd like to use the
> python-porting at python.org mailing list to coordinate efforts to port so that
> distros can help each other with this task rather than everybody reinventing
> the same patches:
> 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-porting
> 
> There's also a few wiki pages on wiki.python.org that we've decided to use
> as well:
> 
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingToPy3k/
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingToPy3k/PortingHelpers
> 
> It's a wiki so feel free to edit information, post scripts to the mailing
> list to gather information, etc.  Right now I'm in brainstorming mode but we need to
> figure out some ways to make actual progress on the code too.  For that we
> need to figure out how to submit code upstream and how/when to fork if
> upstreams are dead, etc.