Sergii Tkachenko

@khmyznikov Apologies for the review delay, gRPC Python team had a bit of a reshuffle. I'll add this PR the team sync agenda (next Tuesday).

Hey @khmyznikov. A few updates. First, unfortunately, we won't be able to accept wheels built by GitHub Actions. While I do like the idea of using GitHub Actions, switching to...

We use GCP under the hood. It [does support the ARM hardware](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/arm-on-compute) and [multiple Windows Server versions](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/os-details#windows_server), but not the combination on thereof. As I mentioned before, Microsoft doesn't provide...

- [x] [grpc/core/v1.62.x/branch/linux/grpc_xds_v3](https://source.cloud.google.com/results/invocations/52987374-4891-4a5b-b370-05373ff0d9d7) - [x] [grpc/core/v1.62.x/branch/linux/grpc_xds_v3_python](https://source.cloud.google.com/results/invocations/249aad28-6f73-45da-8747-490eecd16b65)

Re-running interop: - [x] [grpc/core/v1.62.x/branch/linux/grpc_xds_v3](https://source.cloud.google.com/results/invocations/c3ebec6b-7bcc-4511-8857-3716d77d21a2) - [x] [grpc/core/v1.62.x/branch/linux/grpc_xds_v3_python](https://source.cloud.google.com/results/invocations/cb5d7226-e0d6-4a26-b9cf-1dd3740812d8)

For posterity, here's what Sreenithi did: > Sreenithi Sridharan, Oct 23, 11:03 PM, > ideally we shouldn't be updating the `.current_version` file manually. We need to change the associated Dockerfile...

Current approach to solving this: 1. Add `abseil-cpp/absl/log/initialize.cc` as a dependency 2. Call `absl::InitializeLog()` automatically to solve this problem for 99% of users 3. For 1% that may be calling...

@steveepreston Sorry to hear this bug leads to such a disastrous results. Our team was stretched pretty thin recently, due to hard deadlines for Python 3.14 Oct 1 support, then...

@steveepreston Could you please clarify, in the logs you posted, where do you see gRPC logs, or specifically `All log messages before absl::InitializeLog() is called are written to STDERR`?

cc gRPC Python @sreenithi @asheshvidyut