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On Fri, Nov 26 2021 at 11:47:42 AM +0100, Dmitry Tantsur 
<dtantsur at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Note that this decision will force us to stop supporting Bifrost [1] 
> on CentOS/RHEL completely, unless we find a workaround. While Python 
> 3.8 and 3.9 can be installed, they lack critical modules like 
> python3-dnf or python3-firewalld, which cannot be pip-installed 
> (sigh).
> 
> A similar problem in Metal3: we use python3-mod_wsgi, but I guess we 
> can switch to something else in this case.

I'm not sure I got it. Don't OpenStack already supports py38 
officially? Based on my understanding of the above it is not the case.

Cheers,
gibi

> 
> Dmitry
> 
> [1] An upstream installation service for Ironic based on Ansible
> 
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 7:19 PM Stephen Finucane 
> <stephenfin at redhat.com> wrote:
>> gmann has been helpfully proposing patches to change the versions of 
>> Python
>>  we're testing against in Yoga. I've suggested that we might want to 
>> bump
>>  'python_requires' in 'setup.cfg' to indicate that we no longer 
>> support any
>>  version of Python before 3.8 [1]. As gmann has noted, doing so 
>> would mean nova
>>  would no longer be installable on Python 3.6 or 3.7 and there has 
>> been a small
>>  bit of back and forth on the pros and cons of this. I'm wondering 
>> what other
>>  people's thoughts on this are. Is this something we should be 
>> doing? Should we
>>  do it for libraries too or just services? Do we ever want to do 
>> this? Thoughts,
>>  please!
>> 
>>  Stephen
>> 
>>  [1] 
>> https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/819194/comment/72ecf24f_2bd292c4/
>> 
>> 
> 
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