[Fedora] Proposal for Python 3 Porting FAD

[Neville A. Cross]

El 2015-09-26 11:50, Matthew Miller escribió:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:53:11AM -0500, Abdel G. Martínez L. wrote:
>> We discussed the possibility of making this FAD, global, having
>> simultaneous events on NA, EMEA, LATAM and APAC. Right now we have 
>> only
>> point-of-contacts in LATAM (me) and EMEA (Matej).
> 
> Especially in light of that,iIs there a lot of value in having this be
> an in-person FAD rather than a "virtual FAD", conducted online?
> 

 From my point of view, Brno has most of the people (if not all) working 
on this porting. So, having some face to face time to engage in this 
initiative outside Brno will help distribute the load to other palces. 
This will facilitating future FADs on this topic, those can be done 
regionally with online support form Brno.

> Also, while I like Python, I'm having trouble seeing this as really
> highly important for Fedora. It obviously fits with our "first" value,
> but I don't see a gigantic strategic win. I mean, advancing version
> numbers happens all the time. Can you elaborate more on the high-level
> impact expected from this?


The only PyCon that I have been was in 2011 and everybody was saying 
something along the lines of: "Python 3 is okey if they don't touch my 
stuff". Despite the time passed, Python 3 is not the default version. I 
think if advancing version number in Python is going to happen, needs 
some championship to make it happen (the "first" value). The number of 
packages having double version is increasing. The burden to maintain 
those duplicates is time consuming. Time that can be more useful 
allocated to develop new things instead of work keeping backward 
compatibility.

But I may not seeing the big picture and maybe there are other task more 
prominent that will be better for using those collaborator time and 
project budget.

Not sure what will be the outcome of this proposal. But if this do not 
work out, I think the best thing to do is to channel this eagerness to 
help into a high-level impact task.

Neville
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