Python 3.6 was EOL'd in Dec 2021. However, we've continued to support it because the Ubuntu LTS 18.04 release installed it by default and 18.04 isn't EOL until April 2023:

But we're starting to run into various issues where 3.6 is forcing us to include hacky workarounds:

• latest versions of most of the python package managers break on 3.6, including poetry, pip, pipenv and pip-tools.
• Bumping to 22.04 is blocked because 3.6 conflicts with its openssl version

So this is a placeholder ticket to track any discussions around timing, things that we'll need to update/remove, etc.

If you're a user of Dependabot who is still on Python 3.6 and you cannot upgrade for some reason, please chime in here explaining your use case.