Mercurial 5.2 release as stable release for Python 3.

[Gregory Szorc]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:21 AM Raphaël Gomès <raphael.gomes at octobus.net>
wrote:

>
> On 10/14/19 7:08 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
>
> I support marking the code base as stable with Python 3 in the upcoming
> few weeks - at least for non-Windows.
>
> If we're serious about this, we all need to be running Mercurial with
> Python 3 locally and fixing bugs. I tried installing a Python 3 Mercurial a
> few days ago and I encountered enough tracebacks to cause me to revert.
> Those include https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6196 and an
> issue with evolve/obsmarkers that can be reproduced by `hg push` to
> hg-committed. I think we should land a patch to Makefile that changes
> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/file/649a9601b9e2/Makefile#l8 to
> `python3` to force the issue. We can revert that before tagging 5.2 if we
> want to do a separate release that is Python 3 primary (there was talk of
> doing a 2.7 5.2 then doing a 5.2.1 or a 5.3 a week or two later that is
> Python 3 native).
>
> I think this is the safer approach, regardless of progress made.
>
> We also still have a handful of test failures on Python 3. See
> https://ci.hg.gregoryszorc.com/. (CI is broken with Python 3.5 for some
> reason. I'll look into it.)
>
> Python 3 on Windows has a ton of test failures. ~120 I believe. I suspect
> a lot of them are the same underlying issues. I almost have my CI system
> working with Windows. But we'll certainly need a bit of effort on Windows
> before we can consider Python 3 stable there. At this time, Python 3 on
> Windows seems to be at risk because of the volume of issues.
>
> Other major blockers to Python 3 are packaging work. I'm the de facto
> maintainer of the Windows packages and will write those patches. But my
> priorities are standing up Windows CI because I think having visibility
> into the test failures is more important because what good is Python 3
> packages if Mercurial isn't usable :) I could also help with non-Windows
> packaging if it is needed.
>
> I would also propose we reinstate the @ code freeze for this release so we
> can all focus on Python 3 and quality of life improvements for the release.
> I don't think we'll put out a quality Python 3 release if we're distracted
> by feature work on @.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "@ code freeze", can you elaborate?
>

Until the past ~1 year, the policy was to have a code freeze the 2 weeks
before a major release. Only patches for the stable branch / upcoming
release would be accepted. We did not actively work on the @ bookmark /
default branch during this freeze. The idea was that by pausing feature
development we would focus on putting out a higher quality release. We
changed the policy recently and now it is acceptable to send patches for
@/default in the ~2 weeks before a major release.


> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 9:30 AM Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I hope you are doing well.
>>
>> We released 5.0 as beta release for Python 3 support and much has
>> improved since than. Evolve extension recently started supporting
>> Python 3. There are still few tests failing which are minor.
>>
>> We are planning to mark the upcoming release i.e. 5.2 as stable
>> release for py3 support (except Windows). If we agree on that, we also
>> plan to accept py3 related fixes on stable branch during upcoming
>> feature freeze.
>>
>> It will be the best time to install hg on Python 3 and start testing.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> Pulkit
>>
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