It should be more or less possible to move MediaGoblin to Python 3, which of course means that we should! This bug exists to track the efforts to do so.

sqlalchemy-migrate is unmaintained. This is a pretty big deal generally, but especially because we want to move to Python 3, and we can't without a way forward on migrations. Current sqlalchemy migration mindshare seems to be in ​Alembic, we should probably move that way?

The biggest barrier here is probably how much Alembic supports sqlite. We could really use someone to look into that.

I just pulled down mediagoblin from git onto a new box and noticed that mediagoblin.ini has a couple of non-ASCII curly quotes in the comments. In fresh-out-of-the-box vim, it looks like:

# It defines types and defaults so it�~@~Ys a good place to look for documentation # or to find hidden options that we didn�~@~Yt tell you about. :)

Diff below.

--- mediagoblin.ini 2013-11-18 03:05:50.219990987 -0500 +++ mediagoblin-straightquotes.ini 2013-11-18 03:19:49.106257393 -0500 @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@

# mediagoblin_local.ini, then make the changes there. # # If you don't see what you need here, have a look at mediagoblin/config_spec.ini

-# It defines types and defaults so it’s a good place to look for documentation -# or to find hidden options that we didn’t tell you about. :) +# It defines types and defaults so it's a good place to look for documentation +# or to find hidden options that we didn't tell you about. :)