1699753 - (goodbye-py2) [meta] Unsupport Python 2 in mozilla-central

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: General, task, P3)

Description

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal] (PTO Until Apr 3rd)]

We're almost there!

A few tasks under this bug:

1. Delete the py2/py3 linters
2. Remove "py2commands" logic from mach driver
3. Remove logic for a Python 2 virtualenv
4. Remove uses of six and delete the vendored copy of it (this one will likely take a long time, but no rush).

Probably missing a few.

Comment 1

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal] (PTO Until Apr 3rd)]

Some of this work (like the mach stuff) can proceed before we finish the ci-py3 metabug as it only impacts things locally.

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Bravo :)
It might be an interesting experience to share in a blog post :)

Comment 3

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal] (PTO Until Apr 3rd)]

Yes, I'll definitely publish a retrospective blog post when this is all done.

Comment 4

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal] (PTO Until Apr 3rd)]

Let's make this a meta bug.. I think there will be a long tail of "Remove uses of six from X" bugs to be filed.

Comment 5

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal] (PTO Until Apr 3rd)]

Callek found https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade which can automatically remove six compatibility code as well as __future__ imports. It might be worth standing this up as a mozlint linter, but even if not, it'll likely be handy for folks to use manually as part of this bug.

Comment 6

[Release mgmt bot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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