[openstack-dev] [all][infra]Plan to support Python 3.6 ?

Clint Byrum clint at fewbar.com
Thu Aug 10 03:55:16 UTC 2017


Ubuntu will ship Python 3.6 in the next LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 next April.

AFAICT CentOS 7 still doesn't ship Python 3 in mainline. EPEL has 3.4
still.

Excerpts from Doug Hellmann's message of 2017-08-09 09:31:37 -0400:
> Excerpts from ChangBo Guo's message of 2017-08-09 21:25:07 +0800:
> > We received Python 3.6 related Bug recently [1][2]. That let me think
> > what's the plan to support Python 3.6 for OpenStack in the future.   Python
> > 3.6 was released on December 23, 2016, has some different behaviors from
> > Python 3.5[3]. talked with cdent in the IRC, would like to discuss this
> > through mailing list , and suggest a discussion at the PTG[3]
> 
> One of the reasons we were able to move ahead with 3.5 was that it would
> be available on the platforms for which we test deployments, as defined
> in the CTI [5]. Are Ubuntu LTS and CentOS shipping Python 3.6?
> 
> [5] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/project-testing-interface.html
> 
> > 
> > 1. what's the time to support Python 3.6 ?
> > 
> > 2. what 's the  plan or process ?
> >  Maybe we can do that we support python 3
> >  1) setup python 3.6 non-voting CI jobs
> >  2) Fix related issues about Python 3.6
> >  3) enable pyhton 3.6 jobs voting
> > 
> > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/oslo.rootwrap/+bug/1709505
> > [2]https://bugs.launchpad.net/pbr/+bug/1690103
> > [3]https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html
> > [4] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/infra-ptg-queens
> 



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