dev pip-compile: switch devel branch pip-compile to 3.11

[gotmax23]

This adjusts the devel branch to use Python 3.11 to generate
dependencies with pip-compile. This also adjusts the pip-compile-dev
workflow to run separate jobs for the stable branches, which will still
use Python 3.10 for requirements files. It's not a very
DRY approach; Github Actions does not support loops.

Fixes: #1614
Fixes: #1450

[oraNod]

LGTM. Thanks for the changes @gotmax23 🚀

[webknjaz]

It's not a very
DRY approach; Github Actions does not support loops.

That's not really true: you can have a matrix definition that calls a reusable workflow and passes matrix factors in. This does work, both me and Don have used this approach in the past.

UPD: What doesn't work is skipping some jobs in an event-dependent manner with just declarative syntax. This can be solved by a separate job that pre-computes the matrix, though.

[gotmax23]

you can have a matrix definition that calls a reusable workflow

That's true. I'm not sure why I completely forgot about matrices. I'll try to refactor this.

[gotmax23]

I'll work on this later this month, after I get back from vacation.

[oraNod]

@gotmax23 Hello. Friendly reminder on this PR. Do you think you'd have some time to look at refactoring this? Maybe it's not that big of a deal but I think it'd be nice to bump to 3.11 fairly soon so there's plenty of time before 2.18 etc. Cheers!

[gotmax23]

Thanks for the ping. I'm back from Flock to Fedora, so I should have a draft ready early this week. I'm thinking that allowing manual triggering with custom input makes this too complicated, so I think I'll remove that part and make this into a more simple matrix that runs on a scheduled basis and can also be triggered all at once with the default (hard-coded) inputs.

[gotmax23]

This is ready for review now.

[gotmax23]

• [stable-2.14] ci: refresh dev dependencies #1752
• [stable-2.15] ci: refresh dev dependencies #1754
• [stable-2.16] ci: refresh dev dependencies #1751
• [stable-2.17] ci: refresh dev dependencies #1753

were all created with this new job!

[oraNod]

Thanks for doing this @gotmax23 I think it looks good and can see that it works from the run that you did off your branch.

I've added @samccann as a reviewer mainly as an FYI because this is something we'll need to maintain every time we cut a new branch etc. I can start documenting these things as well as the different Python versions in the README in the next week or so. We have some scribble notes but should probably convert those to something other folks can work with.

[oraNod]

@gotmax23 I also like the fact it's not too complicated. I guess you probably could get rid of some repetition and make it fancy but I feel like that might make it harder for folks to grok and could put off maintainers. Thanks again.

[gotmax23]

I also like the fact it's not too complicated. I guess you probably could get rid of some repetition and make it fancy but I feel like that might make it harder for folks to grok and could put off maintainers.

We could use YAML anchors or something to reuse the nox-args values (one anchor for Python 3.11 + the devel-only tag script and one for Python 3.10) or automatically generate pr-branch based on base-branch, but yeah, that adds extra complexity and I think what we have is pretty maintainable.

I'll merge this now and we can always iterate on this further as needed. I opened a separate issue to create the necessary documentation that you mentioned.