Yep. I just checked it, and yep. We can't do more than just update the
documentation/faq about that/mention in the changelog. I am going to do
just that

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 12:13 PM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> There's nothing we can add in to the provider for this case -- as if the
> user tries `@task.docker` on Airflow 2.1 no code in the provider is ever
> run.
>
> -a
>
> On Thu, Sep 30 2021 at 12:03:34 +0200, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:46 AM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The new docker provider will still install and work on Airflow 2.1 -- the
>> only change is to add a new field to the provider info dict
>> (`task-decorators`) that Airflow 2.2 will read, but that Airflow 2.1 will
>> use.
>>
>> If you try to use `@task.docker` in Airflow it will fail with
>> "_TaskDecorator has no property docker" which I think is fair -- and the
>> docs about this feature say (
>> http://apache-airflow-docs.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/docs/apache-airflow/latest/tutorial_taskflow_api.html#using-the-taskflow-api-with-docker-or-virtual-environments
>> ):
>>
>>
> Right - if using the task.docker in Airflow 2.1 is not a silent ignore but
> a failure, then I agree - we should not bump the minimum version.
> I guess however that we could give a clearer error message?
>
> We've had too many of those cases where our error messages did not really
> tell the user what is the reason - resulting in the users opening issues
> and asking "I have no idea what this is about" (which I believe will happen
> in this case).
>
> Is it possible to add it quickly before we release the provider? Something
> like ("Note That this decorator only works for Airflow 2.2+ - if you use an
> earlier version please migrate to 2.2 or above)"
>
> J.
>
>

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