[kolla] Let's switch to Python 3

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Fri Mar 1 19:57:21 UTC 2019


Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> writes:

> On 2019-03-01 10:31:44 -0500 (-0500), Doug Hellmann wrote:
> [...]
>> Any code the Kolla team is building themselves should still support
>> Python 2 under the deprecation policy, but if all of the projects that
>> Kolla packages support Python 3, I'm not sure why we would also require
>> them to package Python 2 versions.
>
> I didn't mean to suggest we should, only that Kolla should not drop
> Python 2.7 testing of the software they write until after the Train
> release. Artifacts they produce can support one or the other, sure,
> they just need to not cease being able to build from Python 2.7.
>
>> It might be necessary for them to use python 2 versions of some distro
>> packages for a while, I guess. But I don't see any utility in Kolla
>> offering its users a choice of which version of Python to use on a given
>> platform. I would just pick the highest version number that works.
>
> I think it depends on which "users" you're talking about: people who
> want to use images built by Kolla vs. people who want to run Kolla's
> tools to build images.
>
>> Am I missing something? Maybe we need to clarify the guidelines?
>
> I don't find the guidelines unclear, so am unsure where the
> confusion lies. I just wanted to make sure they didn't plan to cease
> testing against Python2.7-based environments before the timeline
> we've established says that's acceptable, so that people without a
> Python3-supporting environment can still be assured running Kolla's
> tools will work to build images for the duration.
> -- 
> Jeremy Stanley

Some of the responses to your email mentioned giving users a choice
about python 2 or 3 in the images. I think we agree we don't care about
that, and only care that whatever software the Kolla team is writing to
make, manage, and install the images retains python 2 support.

-- 
Doug



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