feat: Update default python version for various workflows to 3.11

.github/workflows/bulk_repo_update.yml

@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ on:
         required: true
         default: '3.12'
         options:
-         - '3.8'
          - '3.12'
       packages:
         description: "Space separated list of required packages"
@@ -97,7 +96,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ github.event.inputs.python_version }}
-          
+
       - name: Setup Nodejs
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:

.github/workflows/merge-python-requirements-upgrade-prs.yml

@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
-# This file contains a workflow which will be run on schedule every day, 
+# This file contains a workflow which will be run on schedule every day,
 # or can be call from other workflows and
-# will collect all the eligible (PRs which are labelled "Ready to merge" by our 
+# will collect all the eligible (PRs which are labelled "Ready to merge" by our
 # script) python upgrade PRs from openedx or edx org.
 # After fetching all PRs, it will check if all the checks passing on the PR, if yes
 # then it will merge that PR, otherwise it will fail.
 # Note:
-# When workflow triggered from this repo(under openedx) will merge only openedx PRs 
+# When workflow triggered from this repo(under openedx) will merge only openedx PRs
 # and will merge edx orgs' PRs only when it will be called from the edx/.github repo
 
 name: Merge Python Requirements Upgrade PRs
 
 on:
   workflow_call:
     secrets:
-      REQUIREMENTS_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN: 
+      REQUIREMENTS_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN:
         description: "Github token with read/write access used to merge PRs"
         required: true
     inputs:
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: '3.8'
+          python-version: '3.11'
 
       - name: Checkout repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
         id: generate_urls
         run: |
           echo "urls=$(python scripts/get_ready_to_merge_prs.py ${{ inputs.ORG_NAME || 'openedx' }})" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          
+
 
   merge_pr:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: '3.8'
+          python-version: '3.11'
 
       - name: Checkout tools repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/repo-health-job.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: Repo Health Checks
 on:
   workflow_call:
     secrets:
-      REPO_HEALTH_BOT_TOKEN: 
+      REPO_HEALTH_BOT_TOKEN:
         description: "Github token with read access to all repos and write access to the target repo"
         required: true
       REPO_HEALTH_BOT_EMAIL:
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.8"]
+        python-version: ["3.11"]
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout Repo
@@ -70,14 +70,14 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-      
+
       - name: Clone edx-repo-health repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           repository: openedx/edx-repo-health
           path: edx-repo-health
           ref: ${{ inputs.EDX_REPO_HEALTH_BRANCH }}
-      
+
       - name: Install pip & pip-tools
         run: |
           python3 -m pip install -r edx-repo-health/requirements/pip.txt
@@ -89,14 +89,14 @@ jobs:
           repository: openedx/testeng-ci
           path: testeng-ci
           ref: "master"
-      
+
       - name: Clone repo-tools repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           repository: openedx/repo-tools
           path: repo_tools
           ref: master
-      
+
       - name: Clone repo-health-data repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ inputs.DASHBOARD_NAME == 'repo_health' }}
         run: |
           bash edx-repo-health/scripts/repo-health-artifact.sh
-        
+
       - name: Upload sqlite db as artifact
         if: ${{ inputs.DASHBOARD_NAME == 'repo_health' }}
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4

.github/workflows/upgrade-python-requirements.yml

@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ on:
         default: false
         type: boolean
       python_version:
-        description: "The version of python to use for running this job. Defaults to python3.8"
+        description: "The version of python to use for running this job. Defaults to python3.11"
         required: false
-        default: "3.8"
+        default: "3.11"
         type: string
     secrets:
       requirements_bot_github_token:
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   upgrade_requirements:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
       - name: setup target branch
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ inputs.python_version }}
-      # With the updated package lxml>5.0, now the system dev packages are necessary 
-      # to run pip-compile. Without installing dev packages libxml2-dev and libxslt-dev, 
+      # With the updated package lxml>5.0, now the system dev packages are necessary
+      # to run pip-compile. Without installing dev packages libxml2-dev and libxslt-dev,
       # the requirements upgrade job fails
       - name: setup dev for lxml dependency
         run: |

workflow-templates/pypi-publish.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: setup python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: 3.11
 
       - name: Install pip
         run: pip install -r requirements/pip.txt