[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 22:03,  <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
> On 01:47 am, guido at python.org wrote:
>>>
>>> In spite of Python being a programming language, there is a difference
>>> between 'casual user of the language' and 'library developer'; 3.0 is
>>> certainly a must for all actual library developers, and I'm sure most of
>>> them know about 3.0 by now. We're talking about first impressions for
>>> people
>>> without that knowledge.
>>
>> Well if most library developers already know 3.0 by now, I would hope
>> they aren't going to sit on their hands, and solve the issues at hand!
>
> The best thing for 3.0 adoption would be a 3.0 "welcoming committee".  A
> group of hackers wandering from one popular open source library to another,
> writing patches for 3.x compatibility issues.  There must be lots of people
> who care about 3.x adoption, and this is probably the most effective way
> they can reach that goal.
>

The welcoming committee has somewhat already started. Martin announced
on python-porting that he ported psycopg2 himself and submitted the
patch. Martin also mostly ported Django at the last PyCon.

-Brett