On 6/13/19 4:03 PM, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> Fedora Infrastructure recently deployed Bodhi 4.0.0 to production,
> which included quite a few backwards incompatible changes[0]. Some of
> the changes have resulted in older Bodhi clients (less than 4.0.0) not
> being compatible with the new version of the server.
> 
> In Fedora, FESCo decided to allow the Bodhi 4.0.0 update to go to
> Fedora 29 and 30, and for us to add a bodhi3 compat client package in
> case there were any users counting on using the bodhi3 client with a
> non-Fedora Bodhi server[1] (believe it or not, there are other Bodhi
> deployments out there!)
> 
> EPEL 7 currently has a fairly old Bodhi version (2.11.0). This version
> is also not compatible with the Bodhi 4 server.
> 
> What do you think about upgrading Bodhi in EPEL 7 as well?
> 
> There are a few things I'd like to highlight for consideration here:
> 
> * Bodhi 4 is Python 3 only. Bodhi 2 is Python 2 only. So, upgrading to
>   Bodhi 4 isn't just a switch to a newer Bodhi, it will also mean a
>   switch in Python versions. This will affect dependencies (there are a
>   few).

I think that's fine.  Lot's of things have been moving to python3 in EPEL7.

> * I think we might be missing Python 3 dependencies for Bodhi 4.

Could be.  Hopefully not to hard to remedy that.

> * It might be good to consider dropping the Bodhi server as we do this.
>   EPEL 7 has versions of some of Bodhi's server dependencies that are
>   too old for Bodhi 4. I *think* the client should be OK with the
>   client dependency versions, but of course you never know until you
>   try.

Fine by me.

> * Would we want to maintain a bodhi2 compat package for EPEL 7,
>   analagous to the bodhi3 compat package we made for Fedora?

I guess the question is are there any bodhi2 servers running on EL7 out there?
 Probably won't know until someone screams.  I wouldn't add it unless someone
complains.

> * What about EPEL 6? It's still on Bodhi 0.9, and I have never seen or
>   worked on that codebase. Unfortunately, it has Python 2.6 and not any
>   verison of Python 3, to my knowledge.

EPEL 6 does have python 3.4, I would just let that rot as is.

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