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[stevepiercy]

Uh-oh. https://answers.netlify.com/t/the-current-python-version-3-8-is-very-old/96966/4

To answer your question, yes there are some technical limitations due to which we’re sticking on Python 3.8. Allowing newer versions would require a bigger engineering lift and that’s not something prioritised in the short-term. Seeing your question, I did ask out devs about the status, and it’s still “not planned in any short-term roadmap”.

Meanwhile:

https://fosstodon.org/@orsinium/110807654189402872

I just migrated pythonetc.orsinium.dev from #netlify to #cloudflare pages.

Cloudflare pros: Python 3.11 (Netlify is still on 3.8 and no plans to ever upgrade), amazing analytics, unlimited free bandwidth.

Netlify pros: more configuration options, has a config file, friendlier UI.

Both provide PR previews and are easy to use and fast to set up.

[stevepiercy]

We need to migrate from Netlify or stop using it. Sphinx Book Theme requires Python 3.9+, and Netlify supports only Python 3.8. 💩

https://app.netlify.com/sites/plone-sphinx-theme/deploys/663b5147d6be0c00083499ad#L218

[stevepiercy]

Looks like Cloudflare Pages is the way to go. Example: life4/pythonetc#53 (comment)

[stevepiercy]

Maybe not. I had no luck in #7. I looked at Vercel, and got overwhelmed.

I also looked at https://github.com/marketplace/actions/deploy-pr-preview, but this works only with GitHub Pages classic and a specific branch, not the latest version through GitHub Actions. See rossjrw/pr-preview-action#21 (comment).

GitHub has this feature that they have in alpha and for their internal use only for the last two years, but it is unknown if or when it will become public. See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/7730#discussioncomment-7603270.

[stevepiercy]

It looks like Read The Docs is possible, either through GHA or a webhook. I asked in the Python Docs Discord.

https://github.com/readthedocs/actions/tree/v1/preview

Before I begin, does the Plone Foundation have a RTD organization with subprojects?

Pylons Project has one.

Here's breadcrumbs of Pyramid.

It looks like plone.restapi is a single organization-less project.

@polyester @tisto @ericof @sneridagh @tkimnguyen @mauritsvanrees @fredvd might any of you know? If there is none, should we set one up?

[stevepiercy]

We might not actually want an organization with sub-projects because we cannot have custom domains for each one. The pattern is:

custom.plone.org/projects/<subproject>/

With each project as a plain old project, we can do this:

<project>.plone.org

There are some advantages to subprojects, including being able to search across them and to use a single domain name for each, but I don't think those features are worth it.

Anyway, for now, we have https://plone-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/.

We could set up a custom domain of https://plone-sphinx-theme.plone.org/. @polyester @fredvd what are your thoughts about doing this?

[stevepiercy]

Closed by #11