2020-10-19.md

ASWF Python 3 Working Group Meeting - 2020/10/19

Attendees

• Ashley Whetter, Chairperson, DNEG
• David Aguilar, Disney Animation
• Ryan Bottriell, Imageworks
• Martin de Lasa, Autodesk
• Dhruv Ghovil, Apple
• Dora Morolli, Weta
• JT Nelson
• Narendra Vadapalli
• Robert Vinluan
• Zicheng Ye

Action Items

• Find list of What’s new & what’s going away in 3.9 JT Nelson

Agenda

• Notetaker: Martin de Lasa
• Review action points from last meeting
  • None
• PR Review
  • None
• Status Updates / Progress
  • DNEG
    • Still working on converting “core layer”
  • Imageworks
    • Slowly chipping away at things
    • DCC specific teams are focusing on the most important libraries and feeding information back to Ryan’s team
  • Disney Animation
    • For the next year they will stand-up parallel Python 2 / 3 environments for Maya 2021
    • Using this to A/B test
    • Proposal to share a ‘best practices’ document
• Additional items
  • What is the future of python 4? What will change?