• Belle II
  • Will move to v7r3 DIRAC version this summer
  • Suggested timeline should not be a problem for Belle II
  • Will move to 1.28 and stay on this even after the summer
    • Extended Support Period might be helpful, but not strictly required
• FTS
  • Rucio does not use FTS3 clients, does direct REST interface submissions, thus FTS3 client python version does not really matter for Rucio
  • Python3 GFAL bindings
    • Need to test that specifically in Rucio
    • Seems like Python2-gfal package just seems to work fine with Python3 interpreter?
  • Python2 GFAL will still be supported for some time due to community requests
• ESCAPE
  • Everyone seems to be on Py3 already
• Rucio Integration Tests for TPC (dev container)
  • Still use FTS3-REST-CLI on python2
    • Python3 version is out, we should change dev container to that one
• Conclusion
  • 1.29 python 2.7 deprecation is acceptable for all communities, we will go ahead with this plan
  • 1.28 will not be declared an Extended Support release at this point
    • Can still be done later if needed