Hi there! Matthias Klose decided that uploading Python 3.9 on the 14th of this month (yes, the same day of the OpenStack release) would be fun. I am now really having fun ... fixing bugs! :) What's not so funny for me, is that some key packages like Greenlet or lxml aren't built yet for Python 3.9, even though they should. As a consequence, I just need to wait to be able to upload to Unstable. So this will delay my usual announcement for the release GA in Debian (even though the unofficial Victoria repo for Buster is ready and I could spawn VMs on Buster + Victoria). Anyways, all of this will settle slowly. Though Python 3.9 is here to stay, and to soon reach Ubuntu as well (it's planned for the next release). It'd be nice if projects were starting to investigate gating on Python 3.9 as early as possible. As much as I can tell, there's not so many issues to fix. The first one I fixed is here: https://review.opendev.org/758237 but I don't expect much more, and hopefully, I'll be able to propose more patch as I find the issues. Must we wait until Python 3.9 reaches Ubuntu to enable gating in the OpenStack projects? FYI, I do expect Victoria to run over Python 3.9 in Bullseye. Please don't reply with the usual "Victoria doesn't support it", because that's irrelevant. I'm fine with backporting patches, as long as they also exist in Wallaby. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)