[openstack-dev] Debian already using Python 3.5: please gate on that

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Sat Jun 20 13:32:44 UTC 2015


Excerpts from Dave Walker's message of 2015-06-20 14:05:48 +0100:
> On 20 Jun 2015 1:05 pm, "Doug Hellmann" <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> >
> > > Whether we want to support 3.4 and 3.5, or just 3.4 and then just 3.5
> > > is an ecosystem question IMO, not an upstream one. 3.4 and 3.5 are
> > > very similar when you consider the feature set crossover with 2.7.
> >
> > Right, and IIRC that's why we said at the summit that we would rather
> > not take the resources (in terms of people and CI servers) to run tests
> > against both, yet. Let's get one project fully working on one version of
> > python 3, and then we can start thinking about whether we need to
> > test multiple versions.
> 
> Having information available, even if there is not immediate intent to
> support seems like something we should constantly be driving for.  It
> should certainly be non-voting, but if resources are limited - perhaps a
> periodic job, rather that gate?
> 
> > OTOH, if Canonical doesn't release a version of 3.4 that removes the
> > core dump bug soon, I will support moving fully to 3.5 or another test
> > platform, because that bug is causing us trouble in Oslo still.
> 
> s/Canonical/ubuntu
> 
> Can you link to the bug? I did a quick search, but couldn't find it quickly.
> 

Hmm, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.4/+bug/1367907 is
marked as released but somehow it's still being triggered for
oslo.messaging.

Doug



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