[users at bb.net] Should we remove support for python 2.7?

[Bill Deegan]

All,

I'd suggest dropping 2.7 and not having an LTS.
In the SCons project we held on to supporting old versions for a long time
until fairly recently.
Once we dropped support for several older python versions over the course
of a few releases we've never heard requests for bugfixes for those
version.  (1.5.7->2.2, 2.2->2.4, 2.4->2.5, 2.5->2.7+3.5(and above))
Cut over to Python 3.5 (if not higher), and don't look back.

If it turns out that some high impact bug affects the last 2.7 version, you
can make one-off decisions to port the fix back.
But given the non-infinite amount of developer time available for any open
source project, it's probably not worthy trying to support basically two
development streams..

-Bill
Botherder and SCons project Co-manager


On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 6:46 AM Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> With new fresh contributors coming with lots of new ideas and energy, we
> are thinking about dropping the support for python 2.
> This would allow to embrace newer features, and simplify the code by
> removing compat code.
>
> On the other end, we also have other people asking to slow down the
> monthly release pace (cause it is hard to keep up)
>
> One solution would be to release a 1.7.0 LTS version, and only integrate
> bug fixes there.
>
> Please have a look on the discussion on our issue tracker:
> https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/issues/4439
>
> Regards
> Pierre
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>
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