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Guys,

The question not about "Do we want to drop 2.6 or not?". The question
about "Do we have resources to do that in this release cycle?". It may
be not as easy at it seems and it obviously requires additional
testing.

- Igor

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Przemyslaw Kaminski
<pkaminski at mirantis.com> wrote:
> I just made a general remark regarding why migrating to 2.7 is
> profitable (I understood Bartek's question this way).
>
> The point about Red Hat guaranteeing security fixes to 2.6 is a good
> one. Also, it's true we don't use SSL for fuelclient so yes, if other
> OpenStack projects keep 2.6 we should stick to it also.
>
> P.
>
> On 01/14/2015 08:32 AM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
>> On 01/13/2015 11:16 PM, Tomasz Napierala wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 13 Jan 2015, at 10:51, Przemyslaw Kaminski
>>>> <pkaminski at mirantis.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For example
>>>>
>>>> https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.9/
>>>>
>>>> "All official maintenance for Python 2.6, including security
>>>> patches, has ended."
>>>>
>>>> https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/v2.7.9/Misc/NEWS
>>>>
>>>> Especially the SSL stuff is interesting
>>>>
>>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue22935
>>>
>>> This looks like final word here. We cannot provide software, that
>>> has no security support.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>
>> I can hardly see it as a justification for maintaining yet another
>> package on our own while Red Hat is supposed to provide backports
>> of security fixes to python 2.6 until 2020.
>>
>> I wanted to hear exact use cases of 2.7 features that allow us to
>> accomplish things easier than it is now with 2.6. As Doug already
>> said, clients and Oslo libraries will maintain compatibility with
>> 2.6. So what is the real gain?
>>
>> Regards, Bartłomiej
>>
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