[openstack-dev] [oslo][all] Oslo libraries dropping python 2.6 compatability

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Mon Nov 16 17:47:27 UTC 2015


Yes, major version bump. As long as we don't have to change any consumers,
we have no backwards compatibility concerns because we deprecated 2.6 in
Juno. However i suspect we will have to change consumers specifically we
still had 2.6 jobs in liberty
On 17 Nov 2015 3:23 AM, "Davanum Srinivas" <davanum at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gordon,
>
> When we stop the py26 jobs, the next version we release should have
> major bumps by semver definition. liberty does not have version caps
> unfortunately, but i'll let Doug and others chime in on that.
>
> yes, i know major bumps are hard
>
> thanks,
> dims
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:07 AM, gord chung <gord at live.ca> wrote:
> > do we require a major versioning bump for this? i'm wondering how
> 'breaking'
> > this is in real life if all the services have dropped py2.6 already.
> maybe
> > this just requires an upper-cap in appropriate stable branches?
> >
> > to be devils advocate, one (arguably terrible) reason for not doing a
> major
> > bump is that a lot of libs just did one for the Mitaka cycle.
> >
> > On 11/11/2015 2:14 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
> >>
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> Any concerns? please chime in:
> >> https://review.openstack.org/244275
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> -- Dims
> >>
> >
> > --
> > gord
> >
> >
> >
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