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Re: Abandoning python 2, Odoo <= 10

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Camptocamp France SAS, Alexandre Fayolle
- 07/11/2023 09:52:37 
Hello Stéphane,

This is a good decision IMO.

you mention "bot", does this mean the OCA bot will no longer be useable 
to merge PRs?

Alexandre

On 27/10/2023 18:32, Stéphane Bidoul wrote:

> Hi everyone,

> 

> As time goes by, it becomes harder and harder to support very old and 

> unsupported python versions, as libraries and tooling stop supporting it.

> 

> Moreover, the growing number of branches place an increasing burden on 

> our infrastructure (bot, weblate, etc).

> 

> Therefore the board proposes to drop support for Python 2 and therefore 

> Odoo <= 10.0.

> 

> Concretely, this means the branches will remain available for ad-hoc 

> collaboration or bug fixes, but we will stop maintaining tooling: CI 

> (travis will soon be stopped), weblate sync, bot, publishing to PyPI etc.

> 

> This may happen soon as we clean up things while preparing for Odoo 17. 

> In the future we will consider having an explicit version support 

> policy, but I suspect the main decision criteria will be tool 

> maintenance burden.

> 

> Best regards,

> 

> -Stéphane

> 

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