[openstack-dev] [all] Python 2.6 should rise from the dead

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Wed Dec 16 11:52:07 UTC 2015


On 2015-12-16 12:33, Andrey Kurilin wrote:
> Hi all,
> As you may know, support of Python 2.6 was dropped this month from most
> of OpenStack projects. Also infrastructure team dropped Centos 6.x jobs.
>
> I'm ok with dropping Python 2.6 support from the master(Mitaka), but
> what about stable/kilo and stable/liberty ? Kilo and Liberty were
> released with Python 2.6 support and most of projects have py26
> classifiers there. Without py26 jobs in stable branches, it is hard to
> backport any changes.

Kilo and liberty was not released and neither tested on our server 
projects for Python 2.6. If it had py26 classifiers, that was an error.

It was tested only on the client projects so that new python client 
libraries could connect to an older installation.

Andreas

> Also, requirements for stable/liberty do not contain upper caps for
> python-*clients and oslo.* libraries, so most of projects already have
> broken py26 support in Liberty.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Andrey Kurilin.
>
>
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