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909676433 MDU6SXNzdWU5MDk2NzY0MzM= 5431 Do we need to test python 3.8? 5635139 closed 0     1 2021-06-02T16:24:35Z 2021-06-04T19:34:31Z 2021-06-04T19:34:31Z MEMBER      

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently we test on python 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9; across Linux, Windows, and Mac.

Describe the solution you'd like

Is there any reason to test 3.8 on every commit? Is there any code that would work on 3.7 & 3.9 but not on 3.8?

It's no great cost, but getting the pipeline to be faster has (fairly distributed, often unseen) benefits.

Describe alternatives you've considered

  • I'm not sure whether it's possible to query CI history, and see where failures have shown up? i.e. "which tests, if you never included them, would lead to no change in whether all the tests pass"?
  • We could run these as "confirmation" tests on main only
  • We could maybe also cut out Mac & Windows 3.7? Less confident about these.
 
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