[Jython-dev] Jython 3: greenhorn questions from an old hand

[Jeff A. <ja...@fa...>]

With 2.7.1 seemingly on its release journey, I have a bit of time to 
hack on Jython 3.  A lot has been done to Jython 3 since it forked from 
2, so I have some really newbie questions:

  * Is https://github.com/jython/jython3 the official reference
    repository? (Is https://hg.python.org/sandbox/jython3 dead?)
  * Are we still building with Ant? (It didn't for me on Windows, and I
    thought I'd fix that first.) BTW, this is a question about now, not
    what we'd like to do in future.
  * Versions: Java 8, and Python 3.5?
  * Although I believe I could commit directly to
    https://github.com/jython/jython3, or a branch in there, do we agree
    a better practice is to fork, branch and create a PR for a "feature"
    (groups of related commits)? Even if I then accept my own PR, it
    seems to give us a better audit trail, integration test, squash
    point, etc.. A separate thread/discussion is due about workflow,
    naming, etc..
  * Do we agree that our aim is to run the CPython regression tests with
    as few skips, exclusions and replacement tests as possible?
  * Does anyone have code stored up that I risk duplicating? (E.g.
    Somewhere, Darjus mentioned ANTLR4 migration.) Otherwise I'll just
    start with things I know about (bytes and strings, buffer interface,
    io, import perhaps), driven by getting Py3k tests to pass honestly.

I will averaging much fewer than 3 commits a day. ;)

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Jeff Allen