On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 12:58 PM Pavel Korovin <p...@tristero.se> wrote: > > On 06/13, Johnathan C. Maudlin wrote: > > Has it become vital to move off of Ansible 2.9.x? Currently in Linux > > land, specifically when looking at Fedora/CentOS and Ubuntu, they are > > all still providing Ansible 2.9.x and I would assume Fedora would be the > > first to move off of 2.9.x if there was a pressing need to do so. > > > > In my humble opinion, I think it might be reasonable to continue with > > the Ansible 2.9.x branch as users who rely on a newer version can do so > > using virtualenv and other such mechanisms. > > Johnathan, > The main reason for me to switch is the fact that ansible-2.9 will not > receive bugfixes except the security ones. Earlier or later ansible > community will stop supporting v2.9 and we'll have to switch anyway. > https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#ansible-core-release-cycle >
ansible 2.9 is a blocker for updating py-sphinx to the 4.x series.
