Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 03:42:39PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 6/5/19 3:13 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> 
> >> IOW, I don't think RHEL-7 support as a build platform blocks us from
> >> dropping py2. We merely need to tweak our build platforms doc to clarify
> >> our intent wrt add-on yum repos.
> > 
> > If we clarify the docs in QEMU 4.1, is there anything that
> > prevents us from removing Python 2 support in QEMU 4.1 too?
> 
> My take (but not definitive): if we have any CI setups that are testing
> RHEL 7 without software collections and/or EPEL, then save Python 2
> removal for 4.2 to give us time to update CI setups. But if all of our
> CI setups are already fine, and we clarify the docs, then I'm all for
> getting rid of Python 2 support in 4.1.

If we do this soon, CI system owners will have at least 9 weeks
to fix them before 4.1.0 is released.

> 
> Similarly, if we are going to outlaw in-tree builds, let's get that done
> in 4.1 instead of waiting yet another release.

I'm missing the context on this.  Is this from a separate discussion?

-- 
Eduardo