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On Oct 22, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 10/22/2012 12:44 PM, Monty Taylor wrote:
> 
>> 2.6/3.x support
>> 
>> What do we do about python 2.6? Currently we have to run oneiric slaves
>> for 2.6 testing because precise doesn't have it. I think swift cares
>> about 2.6, but I don't think anyone else does. Swift has also been
>> asking for lucid testing. Cutting off 2.6 support will be important for
>> beginning to think about 3.x support.
>> 
>> Straw man proposal:
>> - Drop 2.6 testing support across the board for this cycle for the
>> master branch. Add some lucid slaves and use them for testing of swift.
>> (nothing other than swift has a chance in hell of working on lucid) Keep
>> the current oneiric-based 2.6 jobs for 2.6 testing of
>> stable/{diablo,essex,folsom}
>> - Moving forward, make plans for grizzly+1 to get swift off of 2.6 (is
>> there any chance of that being reasonable notmyname?) so that we can
>> start looking towards across the board support for 3.x. In the mean
>> time, add some quantal builders with 3.3 installed and run some
>> non-voting 3.3 jobs on some of the projects. (it's possible to have 2.7
>> and 3.3 code that is source-code compatible)
> 
> I think an initial question around 2.6 support is where does 2.6 support
> matter?  What distributions still use it?  (i.e. what is the impact of
> the project dropping support for it?)  Once we determine the potential
> impact, we can weigh that against the potential benefits of doing it.
> 
> RHEL 6.X and its derivatives (CentOS, Scientific Linux, ...) use 2.6.
> Anything else?

Lucid is still supported and has Py2.6. I'd like to see testing for currently supported LTS versions (lucid and precise, today). I'm not as concerned with non-LTS releases since I haven't really seen those in prod clusters.

My general priority is

1) currently supported Ubuntu LTS releases
2) CentOS 6
3) other Linux distros (including non-LTS Ubuntus)
4) other non-Linux platforms

Therefore, because of Lucid and CentOS, Py2.6 is still a priority in my mind.


--John



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