Dropping python2.7 from diskimage-builder

Julia Kreger juliaashleykreger at gmail.com
Thu May 21 03:07:14 UTC 2020


On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 3:24 PM Ian Wienand <iwienand at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 08:13:26AM +0100, Mark Goddard wrote:
> > I would urge caution over dropping Python 2 from branchless projects.
> > We tried it for Tenks, and within weeks had created a branch from the
> > last release supporting Python 2 for bug fixes.
>
> I certainly get that but it has to happen one day.  The gate is broken
> because we do use requirements from OpenStack and they have moved on
> to be Python 3 only.
>
> Since dib is currently on version 2, perhaps we should tag as version
> 3 and then leave ourselves the option of a branch from that point, if
> we find we actually need it?

I think this is the most reasonable action to take.

>
> [1] https://review.opendev.org/728889
>
>



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