brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 03:47:04 pm Allison Randal wrote:
>> The Package Selection and Defaults track is about choosing the
>> best-of-breed packages (applications, libraries, etc), a common task
>> across all editions of Ubuntu. It includes considering the viability of
>> up-and-coming new software, the decline of end-of-life packages, the
>> risks and gains of upgrades and migrations.
>>
>> What's high on your list for this area?
>> Allison
>
> Python 2.7 by default for Python (and possibly drop Python 2.6 if the
> transition goes well).
>
> I'd like to see Python 2.7 default when the archive opens and then assess near
> feature freeze if we can drop 2.6 support or not.
>
> I'd like to see us support Python3 3.1 and 3.2 with a decision for what's
> default near feature freeze.
>
> The Python part of this can't wait until UDS to decide.

It would be really nice, as a 'runs unpackaged stuff on the distro'
use case, to support the highest python version on one LTS as a
non-default on the next LTS, consistently.

As it is users have to migrate *both* the platform and the
python-version of their code simultaneously, and this tends to be
tricky.

Just a though, possibly crackful.

-Rob