On 5 May 2017 at 10:58, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 05:44:46PM +0000, Brett Cannon wrote:
(And just so I can claim I stated this publicly at some point; our Roundup installation I think runs on Python 2.6 and Roundup itself has not been ported to Python 3, so I don't know what we want to do if Roundup doesn't make the switch by 2020.)
Perhaps that's a good use-case for the PSF to (partially?) fund the porting effort.
On the other hand... I can imagine some developers thinking "I just spent all this time porting my library to Python 3 for free, if I had known I would have waited".
Funded Python 3 ports aren't a new idea, as the PSF has been offering & facilitating Python 3 porting grants since 2011: http://pyfound.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/psf-proffers-payment-to-port-to-pytho...
I know at least one former upstream Roundup developer recently moved into freelance software development & consulting, so I'll chat to him to see if he has any suggestions for possible ways forward here.
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia