[Rivet] Rivet release plan

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Andy,

> The big 2->3 switch is usually between strings and bytes, from what I've
> heard: I hope that's largely irrelevant to us, but can't be sure without
> trying: what were the issues that you have to deal with?

It's a bit more than that, I'm attaching an unfinished patch, shows
some of the issues I had to fix.

> David, what's the situation on the IPPP desktops?
> OS X people, with and without HomeBrew/MacPorts/etc., do you have a
> python2 executable?
>
> If all these systems have python2 then I think we should switch our
> scripts to use that in the shebang line for 2.1.2.

I don't know whether it's only the shebang line, or whether the pyext
build system also needs any internal changes to pick up python2. I
will test this, as I have a system where python = python3 but at the
same time python2 is available.

> I have (or rather my wife has...) some weddings to go to in southern
> England in the first week of August, so I was planning to maybe go to
> UCL for a couple of days. Not sure if popping over to Lund will be an
> option, but maybe...!

Ok, let's hear the others' preferences.

> I'd be happy to host something in Glasgow in August/September,

So there are three ideas floating around for the August meeting now
(Kopenhagen/Lund, London and Glasgow)?

> and maybe
> we aim for a Dresden-based sprint later in the year/early 2015?

Sounds good!

Cheers,
Frank
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