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On Tue, 2021-09-07 at 11:44 -0500, Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
>  ---- On Tue, 07 Sep 2021 11:03:09 -0500 Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote ----
>  > On 2021-09-07 10:38:12 -0500 (-0500), Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
>  > [...]
>  > > Definitely we can move to 3.9 as official testing runtime if any
>  > > of the currently supporting distro support it as default.
>  > [...]
>  > 
>  > I don't think it needs to be the default Python in a release so long
>  > as it's available. To quote from
>  > https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20181024-python-update-process.html#unit-tests
>  > 
>  >     "Prior to the beginning of each release cycle, the TC will
>  >     designate the minor versions of Python 3 that will be tested in
>  >     that release using the following criteria:
>  >     [...]
>  >     The latest released version of Python 3 that is available in any
>  >     distribution we can feasibly use for testing. It need not be a
>  >     long-term-supported release, but could be a non-LTS version of
>  >     Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, or even a rolling release
>  >     distribution (such as Debian Testing or openSUSE Tumbleweed) if
>  >     necessary."
>  > 
>  > I recall clearly that this was added so that we would attempt to
>  > test the latest available version of Python in order to help avoid
>  > having software which is clearly non-functional on distributions
>  > which are working in parallel to update their defaults (and so might
>  > reasonably want to ship OpenStack with an interpreter version which
>  > was not their default at the time we started development for that
>  > coordinated release).
> 
> Sure, and by seeing the current py39 job it is mostly passing
> - https://zuul.openstack.org/builds?job_name=openstack-tox-py39
> 
> Let's discuss it in PTG and hopefully by then we might see centos9
> release or closure plan to release dates and as discussed during
> defining the Yoga tetsing runtime, we can update it once if
> centos9 is there then update centos versionb as well as the py version
> otherwise we can disucss only making py39 jobs voting which are running
> on ubuntu focal.
not sure if centos 9 will be avaiable by ptg but i hope so.
in anycaes ubuntu 21.04 default to python 3.9 and debian 11 "bullseye" which is the latest
__stable__ debian release also default to python 3.9 as does fedora 34 but that a much bigger moving target.

in general 3.9 is avaiable if not default in several distro which is why i would like to include it for
required testing e.g. move the current non voting jobs to voting for unit and functest at least.
it woudl be nice if we could have at least on tempst job on py39 too but sure lets pick this up at the ptg.

im not agaisnt keeping support for phython 3.6 and centos 8 stream for yoga but i would like to be abel to
do at least some smoke tests with centos 9 stream if its avaiable.

the none stream version fo centos 8 i think is end of life at the end of this year? but the centos 8 stream
release will continue untile rhel 8 is eol so that shoudl still be supproted to some degree for the full yoga cycle.
the none stream version however wont be supported when yoga releases.


> 
> -gmann
> 
>  > -- 
>  > Jeremy Stanley
>  > 
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