# RFC: python \>=3.8 for Ansible controller && criteria for including collections in Ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/rfc-python-3-8-for-ansible-controller-criteria-for-including-collections-in-ansible/34217>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [November 20, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rfc-python-3-8-for-ansible-controller-criteria-for-including-collections-in-ansible/34217 "2020-11-20T16:35:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Moreau\_Simard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@David\_Moreau\_Simard](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Moreau_Simard)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rfc-python-3-8-for-ansible-controller-criteria-for-including-collections-in-ansible/34217/1 "2020-11-20T16:35:05Z")

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Hello ansible-devel o/

I’m part of the community team for the Ansible project and we’d like to reach out for feedback and comments on two important topics:

1. Bumping the required version of python for the Ansible controller to Python 3.8: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72668](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72668)

2. Formalizing requirements for including new collections in the Ansible package: [https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/issues/131](https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/issues/131)

Please read the issues and reply here or in the respective issues with your comments.  
We appreciate your feedback.

Thanks !