[Kolab-devel] Updated OBS, CentOS 8 support, Python 3 support

[Christoph Erhardt]

Hi Christian,

nice! :-)

Concerning the ongoing Python 3 port, Guido (ghane) is submitting patches on a 
semi-regular basis, which I review and have so far pushed to `master`. How 
would you like to coordinate our efforts? Should future diffs be submitted 
against your `dev/python3` branch?

So far we have gone out of our way to ensure that the code base remains 
compatible with Python 2. At some point, it might be easier to scrap those 
concerns and make PyKolab Python-3-only. Obviously, that would require heaving 
up our existing distro packages to Python 3. What is your stance on this?

Best,
Christoph

On Monday, 15 August 2022 14:51:40 CEST Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The OBS and it's workers have been updated and everything should be fully
> functional again.
> 
> The update has unlocked a couple of things for us:
> * Modularity support for CentOS 8 and friends
> * The workers are now Ubuntu 22.04 compatible, so packaging on that front
> can proceed. * We now have a ppc64le builder
> 
> With regards to CentOS8 you may have noticed the new CentOS_8_Stream
> repository. Given that CentOS 8 is EOL, I'm working on getting Kolab up and
> running on CentOS 8 Stream as the future flagship distribution for Kolab.
> The intention is that e.g. the dockerized Kolab 4 setup will be based on
> the CentOS 8 Stream packages.
> 
> One major aspect of bringing Kolab to CentOS 8 is getting libkolabxml,
> libkolab and pykolab to work with python3. For the first two I think we're
> in pretty good shape by now. pykolab still requires major work, but I got
> it to a usable state in Kolab:16:Testing (dev/python3 branch in git). I
> expect the pykolab changes to still require a bunch of cleanup, especially
> as I didn't take care of python2 backwards compatibility in this initial
> effort to just get it to work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
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