[Idpy-discuss] Bumping the minimum supported Python version

Hello everyone, Within IdentityPython we have agreed to support the Python version that comes with the stable version of Debian. The current stable distribution of Debian is version 11, codenamed bullseye. It was initially released as version 11.0 on August 14th, 2021 and its latest update, version 11.6, was released on December 17th, 2022. Debian stable supports Python 3.9, so I am looking towards bumping the minimum supported Python version to 3.9, for PySAML2 and then for SaToSa. Once this is done, we will be adding typing information to the codebases to ease contributions from other developers and start separating the public APIs from internal code. This will aid in documenting what is there, refactoring the code and cleaning up old and unused code. The plan is to create a new release with the currently merged changes. Then, have a separate release just bumping the minimum Python version required by the package. Expect these new releases to happen within the next week. Cheers, -- Ivan Kanakarakis - sunet.se