Synapse: Update synapse to work with python 3

[MaryWeeb]

[turt2live]

See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1149 for some discussion on this.

[4nd3r]

also dendrite

[r3k2]

yeah is 2017 reason I stay away from python is the silly way its developers stick with 2.x even after more than 5 years of python3 release.. ruby and other libs have not that issue.. not in 5 years. is normal to have 1 year but not 5.. to have to install "extra" python libs etc in distros that have python3 by default is a pain for everyone, for distro manteiners and for users.

[ara4n]

sorry; we have no plans to port synapse to python3; all our work is going into dendrite. dup #1149

[MaryWeeb]

If I update everything to work in Python 3 and made a PR, will it get merged or is this repository unmaintained in it's current state?

[ara4n]

A PR to make everything work in Python 3 (including all the dependent bits of Twisted) would absolutely get merged; Python 3 should bring some major performance improvements. It's just that the core team itself is currently focused on dendrite for landing performance or maintainability improvements.

[r3k2]

@ara4n that makes sense, I can't wait enought for dendrite! the rant from above is not aim at this proyect is in general I help with BlackArch and other linux distros and is annoying that still so long after release and the time announced before there are still not a few, but a LOT of mayor proyects that only work on python2.x so you can see how it can bother some of us having to maintain 2 diff builds and 2 QA and packages etc.. in any case I love matrix <3