Dropping python2.7 from diskimage-builder

Michael Johnson johnsomor at gmail.com
Tue May 19 15:32:52 UTC 2020


This will likely cause pain for the Octavia team (given the extended
maintenance stable branches), but I would rather do this now, early in
the release cycle, than wait.

Just my $0.02.

Michael

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 6:32 AM Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
>
> Heya,
>
> I just pushed up:
>
>   https://review.opendev.org/728889 Drop support for python2
>
> Which drops support for installing diskimage-builder using python2. It doesn’t drop support for in-image python2, that would be a whole different story. It seems that since the two largest DIB users, OpenStack and Zuul, are both now python3 only, it’s a safe move to make.
>
> IBM PowerKVM CI is running third-party CI with python2-based tests. We should probably either update those or just drop it?
>
> Thoughts?
> Monty
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