[Mailman-Developers] Date of Mailman 3 Suite going Python 3 only after Django dropped Python 2

[Abhilash Raj]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017, at 03:43 PM, Simon Hanna wrote:
> On 12/15/2017 08:03 PM, Tobias Conradi wrote:
> > https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/dec/02/django-20-released/
> >
> > 1) Is there a date for when Mailman Suite will switch to Python 3 only,
> > so user are not required to install two Python versions?
> AFAIK there are merge requests for all the parts, the only hold-up is 
> testing to make sure they actualy work. You can search for "Python 3" in 
> the gitlab issue trackers for more information.

There exists merge request for all the django applications. As Simon
mentioned, I am the guy stalling for some more testing :)

My personal deadline is the end-of-this-year, so I'd say sometime by end
of January would be a reasonable timeframe for an alpha release of
Python 3 based Django apps.

> > 2) Is there a date for a switch to Django 2?
> Since Django 2 only supports Python3 support for it will most probably 
> be added by merging the Python3 branches. I haven't gone over all the 
> details, but I don't think there are any changes that still require 
> porting...

This will be done as a part of the Python 3 port, so next releases
should support Django-2.0 out of the box.


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