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Yeah, I added python 3 support after I learned that was the main reason for replacing it. It took me less than an hour to make it work on Python 3, including all (but 2) of the plugins.

And given that PCP is using most of the original code, they must have made the same changes to get Python 3 support.

maybe you shouldn't have waited until the absolute last minute to do this or it wouldn't have been replaced.

I am not sure what you are implying here. I have zero interest in maintaining the project. This was the last blow to a dying project.

The king is dead, long live the king.

pcp-dstat was implemented in 2018, FWIW. The blog post may have been written prior to the January 2019 dstat commits (before which the last commits were in 2016).

More color: https://github.com/dagwieers/dstat/issues/156

The package was removed in Fedora 29, released October 2018.

Yes, and the plan to do this was conceived before June 2018.