Hi Matthias On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 18:24, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > while we have not an 100% agreement to go ahead, I think we should aim for > 3.11.
Action speaks louder than words, and there's been a whole lot of work done to push this forward. > The following steps would be: > > - accept the current python3-defaults into > testing (adding 3.11 as supported) This has been done. > - ask for a transition slot to upload (see #1026825) > python3-defaults with 3.11 as the default We're currently waiting on the PHP 8.2 (#1014460) and qtbase-opensource-src (#1025863) transitions. Although, there's been no progress on PHP 8.2, so this may be reconsidered. qtbase-opensource-src is currently blocked on a pyqt5 FTBFS on mipsel (#1026980), but there is a possible workaround. We hope to be able to start with the remaining steps soon. > - start the no-change NMUs > - file bug reports. > - fix issues > - let 3.11 as default migrate to testing. > If things don't go as planned, we could default back to 3.10. Mostly that > would > be no-change uploads, however in the case of a 3.11 specific fix that doesn't > work for 3.10, these fixes would need reverting. I have no idea who many of > these we will introduce with this transition. OK, good to know we can still back out if we have to. > Also we might want to ask for some freeze exceptions for third party > libraries, > that we can't fix before the feature freeze, unfortunately at this point we > cannot say which and how many packages would be affected. The release team is prepared to consider these on a case-by-case basis. Regards Graham
