I am happy to help porting things. I did it for a number of non trivial packages and happy to do more. It's very soothing experience and better than knitting & sudoku.
Heyya d-p,
I'd like to send an email to d-d-a asking that project to consider no
longer creating new Debian tools in Python 2.
I'd like this to have the endorsement of the team, so, does anyone object to
me asking people to not write new tools in Python 2 only (prefer alternative
deps or porting), and only use Python 2 in very special curcumstances or
for legacy codebases (perhaps a pitch to move to Python 3), along with a
note that we plan to deprecate Python 2 when upstream support is gone
(2020), which puts us on track for two cycles (Buster)
I'll make note of a team which should exist to help with such porting,
(I'm up to help with this) that was one of the items that came out of
the PyCon chit-chat. I got the sense from the room that this would be
OK, but just checking if anyone here has a substantive objection.
If not, I'll send that out later on today/tomorow.
Thanks!
Paul
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