Re: annoyance with Python 3.2 support in Django 1.8

[Dan Stephenson]

Do we currently raise any warnings/exceptions in cases where Python support 
has / or is about to be dropped (particularly mid LTS)..   As a suggestion, 
I was thinking it could be helpful to people affected we raised exception 
msg indicating the last Django version to support their current Python 
version?I'd be happy to build if thought useful.




On Thursday, 3 December 2015 23:30:42 UTC, Chris Streeter wrote:
>
> Donald could probably provide more information, but this post from April 
> shows the Python 3.2 numbers downloading from PyPI are constant, and pretty 
> small [https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/] His take was 
> that CI systems (like Django's!) were doing most of the Python 3.2 package 
> downloading.
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Josh Smeaton  > wrote:
>
>> I agree with Tim. Unless someone puts their hand up to say they 
>> definitely require python 3.2 support for 1.8, I think it makes sense to 
>> drop support in the next dot release of 1.8. 3.2 isn't an easy python to 
>> find in the wild as far as I know, so I'd be surprised if there was any 
>> real support for it on 1.8 by users.
>>
>> On Friday, 4 December 2015 02:50:24 UTC+11, Tim Graham wrote:
>>>
>>> No, using pypy3 doesn't make things easier. There are a handful of test 
>>> failures with pypy3 and it doesn't solve the issue that 
>>> unittest-xml-reporting doesn't work with Python 3.2.
>>>
>>> Issues aside, the main thing I'm trying to find out is, are we providing 
>>> any substantial value supporting Django on an unsupported version of 
>>> Python? So far no one has indicated "yes". If you care about Django 
>>> security updates, shouldn't you care about Python security updates too?
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 5:22:46 PM UTC-5, Shai Berger wrote:

 On Wednesday 02 December 2015 21:05:00 Tim Graham wrote: 
 > 
 > Given that no one reading this indicated that they plan a long-term 
 > deployment of Python 3.2, how about if in the next 1.8.x release we 
 > advertise that Python 3.2 support for Django 1.8 will end January 1, 
 2017? 
 > (we won't break anything intentionally after that, but we won't have 
 to 
 > worry about testing and can spin down our 12.04 machine before it's 
 EOL a 
 > few months later) 
 > 

 Since you brought the issue up yourself -- shouldn't we "swap" PyPy3 
 for 
 Python 3.2? Would that make running tests on ubuntu 14.04 easier? 

 Just a half-baked thought, 

 Shai. 

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Re: Contribution towards the project

[Dan Stephenson]

Welcome Yash, the "Advice for new contributors" area is probably a good 
first stop for dipping your toe in the water..

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/internals/contributing/new-contributors/



On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 10:55:14 UTC, Yash Sharan wrote:
>
> Hello my name is yash sharan. I am a first year student from BITS Pilani 
> Kk Birla Goa Campus, India. I have basic knowledge about python. In what 
> ways can I enhance my current skills so that I may be Able to contribute 
> towards your project in Gsoc 2016. 

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