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On Wed, Oct 23, 2019, at 12:36 PM, Alex Schultz wrote:
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> 
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 1:27 PM Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/23/2019 2:08 PM, Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
> >  > What happens if we drop py2.7 from Tempest:
> >  > * Users with the above case have the way to install the latest Tempest on virtual env of py3. or use
> >  > the Tempest tag if they do not need latest Tempest.
> > 
> >  This seems sufficient to me and testing from a tag is what we're doing 
> >  upstream in stable/ocata and stable/pike branches anyway - not because 
> >  of python version stuff but because of extended maintenance and backward 
> >  incompatible changes since those branches which break testing in ocata 
> >  and pike with tempest from master.
> > 
> >  > Other solution:
> >  > One way is to cut the Tempest stable branch and keep the py2.7 support there with eligible backport from Tempest
> >  > master which is py3 only. But I would say, QA team has no bandwidth to do so. if anyone wants to maintain that then
> >  > we can discuss this option in more detail.
> > 
> >  I would avoid creating a stable branch for tempest if at all possible 
> >  since we have valid options to workaround it (above) and I just don't 
> >  think we want toy with that idea and the precedent it could set for 
> >  relaxing other rules around how tempest is developed.
> > 
> 
> My concern is that in tripleo/puppet we currently rely on 
> centos7/python2 as centos8 is still not yet available. So this pretty 
> much means we likely won't be able to run the latest tempest anymore 
> and there goes our validations. We could pin to a version (we've had to 
> do that in the past) but I'd be concerned about things that go untested 
> until we can finally get python3 available. I think it might be 
> beneficial to have a py2-em branch similar to what we do when we create 
> -em branches where folks who still have to have python2 wouldn't be 
> completely blocked.

The infra team has centos-8 images available now. Another option is to run tempest in a container to host python3. That should work on CentOS 7.

> 
> Thanks,
> -Alex