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 ---- On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:21:48 -0500 Sean McGinnis <sean.mcginnis at gmx.com> wrote ----
 > > > we are good to drop the py35 testing. 
 > > > 
 > > > Train: Good to drop. 
 > > > I am going to push the patches to remove the py35 jobs from the master (which is Train now). 
 > > so i asked this a number of months ago and at the time i did not get a concreate answer. 
 > > if we drop py35 testing that means we are increaseing our minium python 3 version to py36 
 > > 
 >  
 > Yes, following our policy of using the python version supported on the distros 
 > we target at the beginning of the cycle. the Stein minimum py3 version was 
 > Python 3.6 [0]. 
 >  
 > > so projects are free to use python 3.6 only feature correct once py2.7 support is removed. 
 > > 
 >  
 > Dropping py2 support is currently planned for the U release cycle. 

As per Train testing runtime, we will have py3.7 support also which will be before we
drop the py2.7 support.

 >  
 > > i recently found out that nova does not work on py37 and if we have no testing for py35 then 
 > > its possible that we could also break there so if this goes ahead i want to carify that for train 
 > > the only supported python veriosn will by py27 and py36 unless we elect to add py37 support as a train 
 > > goal. 
 > > > 
 >  
 > Failures on py3.7 will need to be addressed as that is one of the Python 
 > runtimes required for Train [1]. 

Yeah, py3.7 support is Train target. We will be making all py3.6 job voting in train with
fixing the failure if any. Most of the projects already running py3.7 jobs.

-gmann

 >  
 > [0] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/runtimes/stein.html 
 > [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/runtimes/train.html 
 >