Re: [PATCH 5/7] testing: Add Python >= 3.7 to Centos, OpenSuSE

[John Snow]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 10:56 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/02/2023 16.40, John Snow wrote:
> > This is just a proof-of-concept patch, as these files are lcitool
> > generated. The real fix will involve updating the lcitool configuration
> > and updating these files that way.
>
> I think it would be good to have a RFC or DONOTMERGE in the patch title, so
> that it is clear right from the start that this should not get merged.

Apologies. I just assumed there'd be no risk of this passing review :)
If there's any point in me respinning this with the proof-of-concept
again, I'll add a DO-NOT-MERGE tag.

>
> > Note that this requires OpenSuSE Leap 15.3; 15.2 won't cut it.
>
> Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE#Version_history it seems
> like even 15.3 is EOL already, so I think we can switch to 15.4 immediately.
>

Noted. Some of the patches in this series are a bit old, admittedly,
so I'll re-review these requirements.

I'm hoping to hear from Dan/Alex on the subject of coverage, because I
don't really know what our current strategy is or what our coverage
ought to be. If CI minutes were infinitely free, I'd suggest we test
both CentOS 8 and 9 simultaneously, alongside with every currently
supported OpenSuSE version, but I imagine that's not really truly on
the table.

I imagine we want to have a mixture of "cutting edge" with "oldest we
still support" to try and cover the spread of likely scenarios, but I
am not sure what the strategies for which to keep at which versions
are.

>   Thomas
>