Commit checks for tests against Python versions whose generic support have reached end-of-life status

[Ricky-Tigg]

Hello. While looking at a commit history, my attention was drawn to entries that had passed checks for pull requests with tests against Python, all in version 3, and postgresql. As per the end-of-life status, all of those Python versions are currently receiving security support, also all of them at the exception of the one with the highest version number, the upstream's latest, have their generic support ended. Therefore, a non-security-related issue found in a version whose generic support has ended is not intended to be fixed. Given this indication, should this be interpreted as meaning that it should be undesirable to perform any checks against such a version? There must be one aspect, however, that remained foreign to me, because I doubt that any check against an irrelevant component could have escaped the vigilance of the owner of this repository.

[nijel]

What is wrong in supporting versions that still have security support? These are still used in many environments.

https://devguide.python.org/versions/ doesn't contain that much of red color and might make it more obvious that these versions are still okay to use.

[Ricky-Tigg]

What happened? Your message is not related to my post. So according to you, you would have found in the latter "Why checking for tests against Python versions that still receive security support?"!

When it comes to the environments, in mine, and yet in stable release, the Python tool-chain is in version 3.13.3.

[nijel]

There are different environments, typically LTS, which come with older Python versions. We want to ensure that Weblate works in those environments.

[Ricky-Tigg]

A version does receive generic support or not. Therefore, qualifying a version solely by its state of oldness in order to express the support status is hardly relevant. Even if an old version received such support, its use would become all the less justified as new versions are published.

[nijel]

I still don't get where you see an issue. Weblate supports Python 3.11 or newer and is tested with all supported Python versions.

[Ricky-Tigg]

The ticket title is self-explanatory, it's all about generic support. I don't know how anyone can help you reading it as it is.