[openstack-dev] [oslo] python 2.6 support for oslo libraries

Flavio Percoco flavio at redhat.com
Fri Oct 24 11:56:49 UTC 2014


On 10/24/2014 02:14 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2014-10-23 17:18:04 -0400 (-0400), Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> I think we have to actually wait for M, don’t we (K & L represents
>> 1 year where J is supported, M is the first release where J is not
>> supported and 2.6 can be fully dropped).
> [...]
> 
> Roughly speaking, probably. It's more accurate to say we need to
> keep it until stable/juno reaches end of support, which won't
> necessarily coincide exactly with any particular release cycle
> ending (it will instead coincide with whenever the stable branch
> management team decides the final 2014.2.x point release is, which I
> don't think has been settled quite yet).
> 

Agreed! I think this is a safer and easier way to drop support for py26
in Oslo. Otherwise, I think we'll have to fight with backports, pinned
versions and whatnot.

Thoughts?
Flavio

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