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

[Christian Mollekopf]

On Tuesday, 16 August 2022 09:34:05 CEST you wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 

Hi Christoph,

> 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?

I suppose lets use the dev/python3 branch for now. I hope to merge that to master relatively quickly though, so we should be able to get back to master soonish.

> 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?

I'm also trying to maintain that compatibility for now, at least until CentOS 7 is no longer a topic for us.

I have meanwhile restored python2 compatibilty and can now execute the unittests at least for both python2 and python3 successfully,
so I hope we're slowly but surely getting there.

Cheers,
Christian
> 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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