[openstack-dev] OpenStack lagging behind 2 major python versions: we need a Python 3.7 gate

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Thu Aug 9 16:43:11 UTC 2018


Excerpts from Andrey Kurilin's message of 2018-08-09 13:35:53 +0300:
> Hi Doug!
> 
> I'm ready to port our job to openstack-zuul-jobs repo, but I expect that
> Community will not accept it.
> 
> The result of rally unittests is different between environments with python
> 3.7 final release and python 3.7.0~b3 .
> There is at least one failed test at python 3.7.0~b3 which is not
> reproducible at py27,py34,py35,py36,py37-final ,
> so I'm not sure that it is a good decision to add py37 job based on
> ubuntu-bionic.
> 
> As for Rally, I applied the easiest thing which occurred to me - just use
> external python ppa (deadsnakes) to
> install the final release of Python 3.7.
> Such a way is satisfying for Rally community and it cannot be used as the
> main one for the whole OpenStack.

Yes, I think we don't want to use that approach for most of the jobs.
The point is to test on the Python packaged in the distro.

Doug



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