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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon open-telemetry

Remove support for 3.6

Open ocelotl opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

Python 3.6 has reached end of life. Remove support for 3.6.

ocelotl avatar Jan 10 '22 18:01 ocelotl

It has been decided in the SIG that support for versions will be removed 6 months after their end of life.

ocelotl avatar Jan 20 '22 17:01 ocelotl

@overmeulen do you mind sharing what you said in the SIG here?

aabmass avatar Jun 23 '22 17:06 aabmass

Sure. Our current goal is to provide monitoring capabilities to our clients for our solution. For that we heavily rely on the opentelemetry Python metrics SDK. Today the requirement we give our clients is to use RHEL8 , which is still in full support phase until 2024. The problem is that the default Python version in RHEL8 is Python 3.6.8. We definitely need to bump our version of Python but this will have a huge impact for us and will require some time. That's why it would be nice if you could extend the support of Python 3.6. Ideally we would need a stable release of the metrics SDK supporting Python 3.6 and then a few months of support just to make sure we can still upgrade if a bug is found.

overmeulen avatar Jun 23 '22 19:06 overmeulen

As discussed in the SIG, I am ok with keeping support for 3.6 until we have a stable metrics release.

@lzchen @srikanthccv WDYT?

ocelotl avatar Jun 24 '22 10:06 ocelotl

I am okay with this as well.

lzchen avatar Jun 24 '22 17:06 lzchen

+1.

srikanthccv avatar Jun 25 '22 02:06 srikanthccv