On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall@gmail.com>wrote:
I think we need to ask first guys who spend their live maintaining libraries instead of just proposing "let's make some poor student port it to py3k", but I might be just wrong, I don't know.
I agree. Part of Summer of Code is about getting students involved so they stick around, and heck my second SoC student is still with our project as the #2 committer, but he's an exception. Also, we need the projects involved to want the tasks done by a student. As a project maintainer I wouldn't want an intern being the most familiar person with our Py3 migration, I'd rather students stick with new features or optimization and coordinate the migration process as a group-wide effort. I added the 2to3 improvement idea to the list, a good start :-) We need a couple more at least. If a 3to2 tool (for backporting Py3 code to Py2, so projects can develop primarily in Py3?) is something that's wanted, who would be a good mentor for it?