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From: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IPython 7.17 drops Python 3.6 support AKA upgrade reminder
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2020 10:25:22
Message-Id: 20200801122509.74842ee7@abudhabi.paradoxon.rec
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] IPython 7.17 drops Python 3.6 support AKA upgrade reminder by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 12:19:13 +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 >On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 06:15 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
4 >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:29 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
5 >> wrote:
6 >> > I would like to take this as an opportunity to remind you to port
7 >> > your packages to Python 3.7 and 3.8. According to our timeline
8 >> > [1], packages that are not ported by the end of the year are going
9 >> > to be last rited. We would also like to switch to 3.8 in December.
10 >> >
11 >> > [1]
12 >> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/Implementations#Implementation_support_timeline
13 >>
14 >> So, has anybody given thought to publishing a list of packages that
15 >> still need to be updated, including their maintainers?
16 >>
17 >> Or perhaps filing bugs?
18 >>
19 >> Or is the plan to go ahead and watching nothing happen for the next
20 >> few months, then start masking hundreds of packages, and then watch
21 >> devs scramble to fix problems they didn't realize existed?
22 >>
23 >
24 >Or perhaps you'd like to help out instead of wasting your own
25 >and everybody else's time on talking?
26 >
27
28 Honestly... seeing such replies from you or knowing that you do not
29 hesitate to hit other devs with your full QA deputy power once they
30 dare to touch python packages is not motivating in any way to even
31 consider helping you.
32
33 Have a nice day...
34 --
35 Lars Wendler
36 Gentoo package maintainer
37 GPG: 21CC CF02 4586 0A07 ED93 9F68 498F E765 960E 9B39

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