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On 1/5/21 3:51 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2021-01-05 22:32:58 +0100 (+0100), Pierre Riteau wrote:
>> There have been many patches submitted to drop the Python 3.7
>> classifier from setup.cfg:
>> https://review.opendev.org/q/%2522remove+py37%2522
>> The justification is that Wallaby tested runtimes only include 3.6 and 3.8.
>>
>> Most projects are merging these patches, but I've seen a couple of
>> objections from ironic and horizon:
>>
>> - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/python-ironicclient/+/769044
>> - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/horizon/+/769237
>>
>> What are the thoughts of the TC and of the overall community on this?
>> Should we really drop these classifiers when there are no
>> corresponding CI jobs, even though more Python versions may well be
>> supported?
> 
> My recollection of the many discussions we held was that the runtime
> document would recommend the default python3 available in our
> targeted platforms, but that we would also make a best effort to
> test with the latest python3 available to us at the start of the
> cycle as well. It was suggested more than once that we should test
> all minor versions in between, but this was ruled out based on the
> additional CI resources it would consume for minimal gain. Instead
> we deemed that testing our target version and the latest available
> would give us sufficient confidence that, if those worked, the
> versions in between them were likely fine as well. Based on that, I
> think the versions projects claim to work with should be contiguous
> ranges, not contiguous lists of the exact versions tested (noting
> that those aren't particularly *exact* versions to begin with).
> 
> Apologies for the lack of references to old discussions, I can
> probably dig some up from the ML and TC meetings several years back
> of folks think it will help inform this further.
> 

For what little it's worth, that jives with my hazy memories of the 
discussion too. The assumption was that if we tested the upper and lower 
bounds of our Python versions then the ones in the middle would be 
unlikely to break. It was a compromise to support multiple versions of 
Python without spending a ton of testing resources on it.