Upgrade Beiwe Backend platforms to Python 3.11

[biblicabeebli]

Python 3.8 goes out of support in October (2024-10, https://devguide.python.org/versions/ ).

We are currently blocked on upgrading to the most recent Python 3.12 due to the platform not being available on Elastic Beanstalk.

• https://github.com/amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023/issues/483
• https://github.com/aws/elastic-beanstalk-roadmap/issues/174
• official reference https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/platforms/platform-history-python.html

Python platform upgrades are a somewhat complex to implement upgrade because we need to test and throw together directions like we have for the 3.6 to 3.8 upgrade, like we did here.

• https://github.com/onnela-lab/beiwe-backend/wiki/Upgrading-to-Python-3.8

Usually the process is a fairly simple sequence of commands usung the AWS and Elastic Beanstalk command line tools.

The real complexity is:

• we have to correctly document and mark a branch (see the bottom of the full branches list https://github.com/onnela-lab/beiwe-backend/branches/all for examples) so that there is a still-3.8-compatible branch a slow-to-upgrade platform sysadmin can reference and swap over to when they get around to upgrading.
• Development also requires testing updates to the Beiwe deployment tool launch script - a full stack deploy, which is ... annoying.

[biblicabeebli]

@hackdna let's check in on anything we will need to sync up to get forest working under 3.11. I checked last week and there was a requirements conflict (I believe with numpy) when I tried installing, but it may have been resolved by the celery update so I will have to check that again.

I'm making an issue on forest, I should be competent on this one when we get to it, but I think there are CI things that you usually handle.

[hydawo]

@biblicabeebli lets discuss this at our next meeting and how I or the RA's can help