Re: Git migration schedule
On Monday, October 05, 2015 11:49:01 AM Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Oct 04, 2015, at 08:03 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> >am I the only one thinking it's quite a huge number to be handled by
> >hand? and whose hands will be the ones converting these packages?
> >yours or Barry's dont seem enough and others will need training/time.
>
> I'm happy to pitch in if a maintainer needs help doing so. I'd like to at
> least capture the manual steps needed on the GitPackaging page. I'm not
> sure if there is enough commonality to make that worthwhile, but there
> might be.
> >Additionally, now we are in the middle of the 3.5 transition, and so
> >packages will need updating rather quickly: are we sure this is the
> >best time to push full throttle with the migration? I'd rather wait a
> >little bit longer and have a more automatic migration at a calmer
> >moment for python modules.
>
> Waiting longer isn't an option IMHO. It's helping to add to the dysfunction
> of the team. I will also offer to help if the 3.5 transition gets stuck
> because of the git conversion.
The first phase of the transition is almost done (92% or so), so I don't think
that it's a valid reason to hold things up. In fact, from a transition
perspective, ~now is good so it can all be settled out before we want to make
python3.5 default.
Scott K
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