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One of the foundations of the Fedora Community is Features, which represents our commitment to excellence. Five years ago the Python 3 stack was added to Fedora, with the hope that at some point Python 3 will replace Python 2. About two years ago an effort was begun to make Python 3 the default implementation. There has been great progress, but is not enough. Here is why: Fedora has 2941 Python packages , which only the 32% have been ported to Python 3. | |||
== Impact == | == Impact == | ||
Revision as of 01:30, 2 November 2015
This is the main page for the 2015 Python 3 Porting FAD, which is a FAD (a mini-conference) focused on working on the missing packages, libraries and applications that are not ported to Python 3 but are relevant to the release of the Fedora operating system according to the PortingDB app.
Location and Date
- Location: Global
- Date: November 14-15
Purpose
One of the foundations of the Fedora Community is Features, which represents our commitment to excellence. Five years ago the Python 3 stack was added to Fedora, with the hope that at some point Python 3 will replace Python 2. About two years ago an effort was begun to make Python 3 the default implementation. There has been great progress, but is not enough. Here is why: Fedora has 2941 Python packages , which only the 32% have been ported to Python 3.
Impact
Not yet defined.
Points of Contact
- LATAM: Abdel Martínez
- EMEA: Matej Stuchlik
- NA: Ralph Bean
Important Skills
Not yet defined.
Planning
Not yet defined.
Communication Channels
- Chat at the IRC channel #fedora-python (will be logged).
- Share ideas and information of packages on Etherpad.
- Join us on the video conference at opentokrtc.
Rewards
Active participants will get two badges:
- Parselmouth: You can speak Python and helped with porting stuff to Python 3.
- (Not yet designed!) Python 3 Porting FAD 2015: You attended the Python 3 Porting FAD 2015!
Reports
Expect links to reports after the event.