This changes my mind and I agree.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 6:21 AM Bowen Song <bo...@bso.ng> wrote: > > I'm against this change. > > CentOS 7 only has Python up to 3.6 available from the EPEL repository, > and the maintenance updates for CentOS 7 ends in 2024. See: > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product > > To install Python>3.6 on CentOS 7, the user must either use a 3rd party > repository that's not maintained by the same project or compile it from > source. None of these is as simple as "yum install epel-release && yum > install python36". > > I would strongly recommend keeping Python 3.6 compatibility until > 2024-06-30 when the CentOS 7 maintenance updates is stopped. > > On 05/04/2022 11:35, Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I stumbled upon this ticket (1) > > > > We will have Cassandra running with unsupported Python 3.6 once we > > release 4.1 which is not good in my books. > > > > I would like to try to bump it to 3.8 as minimum, it will get security > > updates to 2024 at least. > > > > Does it make sense to people? Especially so close to the freeze. I > > guess we would need to update Python in Jenkins images mostly and so > > on. I am running 3.8.10 locally with all the tests so it really seems > > to be just a version bump. > > > > Regards > > > > (1) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17450
