Add option to set minimum supported branch

sbidoul commented 11 months ago

At some point we will not want to continue generating READMEs and publishing wheels for older Odoo versions.

legalsylvain commented 11 months ago

Naive question : why ?

sbidoul commented 11 months ago

The short answer is that we can't support old versions forever.

In more details

when I'll deploy the new README.rst generator, it will generate runboat links and runboat does not support Odoo 8 and 9 (it could but nobody contributed nor asked for it)
the oca/oca-ci image does not support Odoo 8 and 9 (it could but nobody contributed nor asked for it)
the OCA repo template does not support 8 and 9
sooner or later we'll stop paying for travis so we won't have CI anymore for 8 and 9, without official alternative since no one tests the repo template with 8 and 9

So I'm going to ask that we declare 8 and 9 officially unsupported by OCA.

sbidoul commented 11 months ago

Ah, I forgot to mention that the main branch bot consumes a significant amount of resources on the OCA server, so it will help with that too.

Nevertheless this PR does not change the default behaviour, it just adds a configuration option.

OCA / oca-github-bot