I am not important enough to take any final decision, but I'd think that if there is time for testing, we might be ok with that. I hope, that someone else will have their say here, too.

We shall discuss this on our Monday meeting. As for my opinion, I think it is okay. Python 3.8 doesn't seem to bring any significant backwards-incompatible changes (I am not saying there aren't any) and if something gets terribly broken by this, we can rollback to 3.7.

By looking at schedules, I see "Do a mass rebuild against every future release in Copr" which should give us a good idea how things are looking. Anyway, I believe change owners will handle this and all possible issues just fine.

So, @churchyard , I don't expect -1 from QA, but we'll have final decision by Monday.

@churchyard

"QA is generally OK with this Change in principle, we are somewhat concerned at the timing and would be happiest if the Python 3.8 release winds up happening before the Fedora 31 Final freeze."

Thanks. We are planning to put the release candidate in before final freeze and we are quite confident in shipping the final release as a 0-day update.

This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge:
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/tickets/issues/582

Please continue any further discussion there.