[Python-porting] Attempt to organize people who want to help port

[Zubin Mithra]

Hello Toshio,


> After a few mailing list posts about porting to python3 when upstreams are
> dead, I've started a page to help organize people who want to do porting
> work without (previously :-) being associated with upstream.
>

Thanks for taking the initiative on this one!

I would like to contribute to this effort. I am currently working on porting
configobj to Python3k and expect to get it done within the coming month.

I feel that if we can generate a list of packages rated by
importance(`importance` here being the number of packages which require this
package as a dependency) we should be able to focus our energies better on
porting them over first.

I feel that most developers are reluctant to work on porting their
dependencies too, aside from their own package(which is of course,
understandable); hence this approach might be of help in that case.

zm


>
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingToPy3k/PortingHelpers
>
> This is very rough atm as I just brainstormed it in the past hour.  I know
> that Barry Warsaw and Dave Malcolm are both interested in this as well.
> If we can keep up the momentum here we might get some useful information
> and get some more people interested in working on python3 porting.
>
> -Toshio
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