Adding SaltStack

[garethgreenaway]

SaltStack will not be supporting Python 2.x as of January 1, 2020 --and, at the time of this post, had over 9,800 stars on GitHub. Happy to adjust placement in the list!

[thatch45]

Hi, as the creator of Salt, I approve this pull request :)

[takluyver]

Thanks!

It looks like there are several other active maintainers now - are they on board with putting Salt's name on this? I'm not doubting you, we just try to make sure that no-one gets a surprised by a project they feel part of signing the statement.

[Ch3LL]

👍 from me

[garethgreenaway]

@takluyver I am a member of the SaltStack core team that is responsible for maintaining the Salt project, I've also asked other members of the team to comment on this. 🙂 We've also had a lengthy discussion with our community about dropping support for python 2 and the community is on board.

[waynew]

👍 Yes indeed! Python 2 was a great language that made the world a better place, but Python 3 is even better, and it's time for new versions of SaltStack to go Python3 only ❤️ 🚀 🌔

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[s0undt3ch]

👍
Long Live Python 3!

[twangboy]

Python 2 has been great, but it's time to move on.

[thatch45]

This move has been proposed and ratified by the SaltStack core engineering team and community in a Salt Enhancement Proposal:
https://github.com/saltstack/salt-enhancement-proposals/blob/master/accepted/0005-retire-py2-support.md

All deprecation warnings have been added to released software and release notes have made these announcements.
I appreciate your diligence in making sure we are all on board here!

[Carreau]

Thanks !

Make sure to look at the practicalities page and in particular how to put python_requires in your setup.py, to make sure pip does not try to install newer versions of salt on old python. After all we still care about Python 2 users as many are stuck there, and would still like pip install to work form them !

[takluyver]

Thanks all, I think it looks like there's a clear consensus. :-)