[pypy-commit] pypy.org extradoc: forgot to add an html

fijal noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
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Author: Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r260:a140e48653cd
Date: 2011-09-20 16:17 +0200
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+	<title>PyPy :: (UNRELEASED DRAFT) Call for donations - PyPy to support Python3!</title>
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+<h1 class="title">(UNRELEASED DRAFT) Call for donations - PyPy to support Python3!</h1>
+<p>The release of Python 3 has been a major undertaking for the Python
+community, both technically and socially.  So far the PyPy interpreter
+implements only version 2 of the Python language and is increasingly
+used in production systems.  It thus contributes to the general risk
+of a long lasting Python community split where a lot of people
+continue using Python 2 while others work with Python 3, making it
+harder for everyone.</p>
+<p>The PyPy project is in a unique position in that it could support
+<strong>both Python 2 and Python 3</strong> versions from the same code base, fully
+reusing its unique translation and JIT-Compiler technologies.
+However, it requires a lot of work, and it will take a long time
+before we can complete a Python 3 port if we only wait for volunteer
+work.  Thus, we are asking the community to help with funding the
+necessary work, to make it happen faster.  <a class="reference internal" href="#here">Here</a> is a more detailed view on how our proposed work benefits the Python community and the general public.</p>
+<p>Below you'll find the <a class="reference internal" href="#planned-stages-of-work">planned stages of work</a> and the associated
+fundraising targets we need to make things happen.  Once we reach the
+neccessary target for each stage, we will start contracting
+developers.  Contracts and money are managed by the non-profit
+<a class="reference external" href="http://sfconservancy.org/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a> of which the PyPy project is a member.
+The current elected representatives are Carl Friedrich Bolz, Holger
+Krekel and Jacob Hallen and they will - in close collaboration - with
+Conservancy and the core developers, select the best developers for
+the Python 3 porting job among well known PyPy contributors.</p>
+<p>If you want to see PyPy support Python 3 and Python 2, donate here:</p>
+<blockquote>
+XXX insert links to Paypal and Google Chekcout links categorized such
+that things will get accounted properly on the Conservancy side</blockquote>
+<p>Should we not receive enough donations to complete all stages by 1st March 2012
+at the latest, we will try our best to make PyPy support Python 3 anyway.  We
+however reserve the right to shift any unused funds to other PyPy activities
+when that date is reached.  Of course, since the Conservancy is a
+501&copy;(3) chartiable organization incorporated in NY, USA, all funds will,
+regardless of their use, be spent in a way that benefits the general
+public, the advancement of Open Source and Free Software,
+and in particular the PyPy community and the PyPy codebase.</p>
+<p><strong>Note</strong> For donations higher than $XXX we can arrange for an invoice
+and a different payment method to avoid the high Paypal fees.  Please
+contact pypy at sfconservancy.org if you want to know details on how
+to donate via other means.</p>
+<div class="section" id="id1">
+<span id="planned-stages-of-work"></span><h1>Planned stages of work</h1>
+<p>The goal of this project is to write an interpreter that interprets
+version 3 of Python language. To be precise we would aim at having
+Python 3.2 interpreter together in the same codebase as python 2.7
+one.</p>
+<p>At the end of the project, it will be possible to decide at
+translation time whether to build an interpreter which supports Python
+2.7 or Python 3.2 and both versions will be nightly tested and
+available from nightly builds.</p>
+<p>The focus of this project is on compatibility, not performance.  In
+particular, it might be possible that the resulting Python 3
+interpreter will be slower than the Python 2 one.  If needed,
+optimizing and making it more JIT friendly will be the scope of a
+separate project.</p>
+<div class="section" id="about-estimates-and-costs">
+<h2>About estimates and costs</h2>
+<p>For each step, we estimated the time that it would take to complete for an
+experienced developer who is already familiar with the PyPy codebase.  From
+this number, the money is calculated considering a hourly rate of $60, and a
+5% overhead which goes to the <a class="reference external" href="http://sfconservancy.org/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>, the non-profit
+association of which the PyPy project is a member and which manages all the
+issues related to donations, taxes and payments.</p>
+<p>The estimated time to complete the whole project is about 10.5 person-months.</p>
+<p>For comparison, the python-3000 mailing list was created in March 2006; Python
+3.0 was released in December 2008 and Python 3.1, the first release genuinely
+suitable for production use (due to the abysmal I/O performance of 3.0) was
+released in June 2009.  During these 3.5 years, a lot of people contributed to
+the development of Python 3, and while it is hard to turn these numbers into
+precise person-years, it sounds reasonable to think that in total it took
+several person-years.</p>
+<p>We have the advantage of targeting something that already exists without
+having to define the destination as they go along, and also the internal
+architecture of PyPy makes it easier to do the porting.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="step-1-core-language">
+<h2>Step 1: core language</h2>
+<p>In this step, we implement all the changes to the core language,
+i.e. everything which is not in the extension modules.  This includes, but it
+is not necessarily limited to the following items, which are split into two
+big areas:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p class="first"><strong>Sub-step 1.1</strong>: string vs unicode and I/O:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>adapt the existing testing infrastructure to support running Python 3 code</li>
+<li>string vs bytes: the interpreter uses unicode strings everywhere.</li>
+<li>the <tt class="docutils literal">print</tt> function</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">open</tt> is now an alias for <tt class="docutils literal">io.open</tt>, removal of the old file type.</li>
+<li>string formatting (for the part which is not already implemented in Python
+2.7)</li>
+<li>the _io module (for the part which is not already implemented in Python
+2.7)</li>
+<li>syntactic changes to make <tt class="docutils literal">io.py</tt> importable (in particular:
+<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">metaclass=...</span></tt> in class declarations)</li>
+<li><strong>Estimate cost</strong>: $37,000</li>
+</ul>
+</blockquote>
+</li>
+<li><dl class="first docutils">
+<dt><strong>Sub-step 1.2</strong>: other syntactic changes, builtin types and functions,</dt>
+<dd><p class="first">exceptions:</p>
+<ul class="last simple">
+<li>views and iterators instead of lists (e.g., <tt class="docutils literal">dict.items()</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">map</tt>,
+<tt class="docutils literal">range</tt> &amp; co.)</li>
+<li>new rules for ordering comparisons</li>
+<li>removal of old-style classes</li>
+<li>int/long unification</li>
+<li>function annotations</li>
+<li>smaller syntax changes, such as keyword-only arguments, <tt class="docutils literal">nonlocal</tt>,
+extended iterable unpacking, set literals, dict and set comprehension, etc.</li>
+<li>changes to exceptions: <tt class="docutils literal">__traceback__</tt> attribute, chained exceptions,
+<tt class="docutils literal">del e</tt> at the end of the except block, etc.</li>
+<li>changes to builtins: <tt class="docutils literal">super</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">input</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">next()</tt>, etc.</li>
+<li>improved <tt class="docutils literal">with</tt> statement</li>
+<li><strong>Estimate cost</strong>: $26,000</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Note that the distinction between sub-steps 1.1 and 1.2 is blurry, and it might be
+possible that during the development we will decide to move items between the
+two sub-steps, as needed.</p>
+<p>For more information, look at the various &ldquo;What's new&rdquo; documents:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.0.html">http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.0.html</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.1.html">http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.1.html</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.2.html">http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.2.html</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p><strong>Total estimate cost</strong>: $63,000</p></div>
+<div class="section" id="step-2-extension-modules">
+<h2>Step 2: extension modules</h2>
+<p>In this step, we implement all the changes to the extension modules which are
+written in C in CPython.  This includes, but it is not necessarily limited to:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">collections</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">gzip</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">bz2</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">decimal</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">itertools</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">re</tt>,
+<tt class="docutils literal">functools</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">pickle</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">_elementtree</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">math</tt>, etc.</li>
+</ul>
+<p><strong>Estimate cost</strong>: this is hard to do at this point, we will be able to give a
+more precise estimate as soon as Step 1 is completed.  As a reference, it
+should be possible to complete it with $37,000</p></div>
+<div class="section" id="step-3-cpyext">
+<h2>Step 3: cpyext</h2>
+<p>The <tt class="docutils literal">cpyext</tt> module allows to load CPython C extensions in PyPy.  Since the
+C API changed a lot between Python 2.7 and Python 3.2, <tt class="docutils literal">cpyext</tt> will not
+work out of the box in the Python 3 PyPy interpreter.  In this step, we will
+adapt it to work with Python 3 as well.</p>
+<p>Note that, even for Python 2, <tt class="docutils literal">cpyext</tt> is still in a beta state.  In
+particular, not all extension modules compile and load correctly.  As a
+consequence, the same will be true for Python 3 as well.  As a general rule,
+we expect that if a Python 2 module works with <tt class="docutils literal">cpyext</tt>, the corresponding
+Python 3 version will also work when this step is completed, although the
+details might vary depending on the exact C extension module.</p>
+<p><strong>Estimate cost</strong>: $5,000</p></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="benefits-of-this-work-to-the-python-community-and-the-general-public">
+<span id="here"></span><h1>Benefits of This Work to the Python Community and the General Public</h1>
+<p>Python has become one of the most popular dynamic programming languages in
+the world.  Web developers, educators, and scientific programmers alike
+all value Python because Python code is often more readable and because
+Python often increases programmer productivity.</p>
+<p>Traditionally, languages like Python ran more slowly than static, compiled
+languages; Python developers chose to sacrifice execution speed for ease
+of programming.  The PyPy project created a substantially improved Python
+language implementation, including a fast Just-in-time (JIT) compiler.
+The increased execution speed that PyPy provides has attracted many users,
+who now find their Python code runs up to four times faster under PyPy
+than under the reference implementation written in C. Some programs that
+are particularly JIT-friendly see even greater speedups.</p>
+<p><span class="target" id="speed">speed</span>: <a class="reference external" href="http://speed.pypy.org">http://speed.pypy.org</a></p>
+<p>Meanwhile, the Python community is undergoing significant change, with the
+introduction of a new &lsquo;version 3&rsquo; of the Python language (Python 3).
+Python 3 breaks some backwards compatibility with 2.x series, so
+programmers who seek to use Python 3 must port old code.  For example,
+programmers who needed old libraries might want to use Python 2 only and
+programmers wanting to use new language features would like to use Python
+3, but would not be able to use libraries that written for Python 2.x
+without substantial rewrites.  This issue could lead to a dangerous
+community split: programmers who needed old libraries might only use
+Python 2 and programmers seeking new language features would use Python 3,
+but would not be able to use libraries written for Python 2.x.</p>
+<p>PyPy currently supports only Python 2.7.  While PyPy supports only version
+2 of the Python language, PyPy users have an incentive to avoid Python 3.
+Python programmers must chose between the language features in Python 3,
+and the substantial performance benefits offered by PyPy.</p>
+<p>To address this issue, the PyPy team proposes to implement Python 3 on
+PyPy.  With such improvements to PyPy, PyPy can support the entire
+Python-using community and hopefully help to prevent any community split.
+PyPy support of Python 3 would also bring the excellent code execution
+performance of PyPy to those who wish to migrate to Python 3.</p>
+<p>Moreover, by ensuring the latest version of the Python language
+specification (Py3k) works properly and fully on PyPy, the maximal benefit
+of collaboration, learning, and software improvement can happen in the
+entire Python language community.</p>
+<p>A broad community of developers support and develop the PyPy project,
+many of whom work as volunteers. The Py3k grant should help with turning
+some attention towards implementing Python 3. This will not hinder other
+directions in which PyPy is going like improving performance. The goal
+of the PyPy community is to support both Python 2 and Python 3 for the
+forseeable future.</p>
+<p>PyPy's developers make all PyPy software available to the public without
+charge, under PyPy's Open Source copyright license, the permissive MIT
+License.  PyPy's license assures that PyPy is equally available to
+everyone freely on terms that allow both non-commercial and commercial
+activity.  This license allows for academics, for-profit software
+developers, volunteers and enthusiasts alike to collaborate together to
+make a better Python implementation for everyone.</p>
+<p>Finally, tracing JITs and other programming language execution technology
+used in PyPy are of current and particular interest in computer science
+research.  PyPy helps cross-pollinate knowledge between academic computer
+science and industrial use of Python, since PyPy can function well both as
+a research tool and real-world Python programming language implementation.
+Continued support and evolution of PyPy in any direction, such as support
+for Py3k, increases the features available from PyPy and such improvements
+are expected to spark even more general interest in PyPy itself and the
+Python programming language generally.</p>
+<dl class="docutils">
+<dt>References on Educational Uses of Python:</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li><a class="reference external" href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/SchoolsUsingPython">http://wiki.python.org/moin/SchoolsUsingPython</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.python.org/doc/essays/cp4e.html">http://www.python.org/doc/essays/cp4e.html</a></li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+<dt>References for PyPy and its benefits:</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li><a class="reference external" href="http://pypy.org/">http://pypy.org/</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="http://pypy.org/features.html">http://pypy.org/features.html</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="http://pypy.org/compat.html">http://pypy.org/compat.html</a></li>
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