Drop RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 support and move to Python 3.8 minimum?

[Pavel Kalugin]

On 8/19/23 21:06, Andreas Schneider via samba-technical wrote:
> On Friday, 18 August 2023 02:08:00 CEST Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical
> wrote:
>> I would note that times when we didn't line up the CI version and
>> Python 'supported' version, it kept breaking.
>> I note that RHEL7 ends 'maintenance' in June 2024, just after the 4.20
>> release March 2024
>> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/end-maintenance-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-al
>> most-here Those dates I think give good cause to drop CentOS 7, but other
>> views still welcome.
> 
> I'm fine with dropping Python 3.6 support for Samba 4.20.

How will this affect OpenSUSE Leap users, where official python3 is 
still python3.6?

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Pavel Kalugin
inno.tech