Bump minimal python version to 3.9

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Tests
+name: CI
 
 on:
   push:
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ on:
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
-  issues: write
 
 jobs:
   test:
@@ -20,8 +19,6 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-          - python-version: "3.8"
-            toxenv: py38
           - python-version: "3.9"
             toxenv: py39
           - python-version: "3.10"
@@ -34,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
             toxenv: py313
           - python-version: "3.14"
             toxenv: py314
-          - python-version: "3.12"
+          - python-version: "3.x"
             toxenv: no-flask-caching
 
     steps:
@@ -104,6 +101,8 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [test, build, docs]
     if: always() && (contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') || contains(needs.*.result, 'cancelled')) && github.event_name == 'schedule'
+    permissions:
+      issues: write
     steps:
       - name: Create issue on failure
         uses: actions/github-script@v8
@@ -112,7 +111,6 @@ jobs:
             const title = 'Scheduled Tests Failed';
             const workflowUrl = '${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}';
             const timestamp = new Date().toISOString();
-
             const body = `The scheduled test run failed on ${timestamp}.
 
             **Workflow Run:** ${workflowUrl}

pyproject.toml

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ name = "graphite-render"
 version = "1.1.6"
 description = "based on graphite-api, which is based graphite-web, but maintained for python3."
 readme = "README.rst"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
-license = {text = "Apache-2.0"}
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+license = "Apache-2.0"
 authors = [
     {name = "Bruno Renié", email = "bruno@renie.fr"},
     {name = "Christoph Settgast", email = "csett86_git@quicksands.de"},
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ classifiers = [
     "Operating System :: OS Independent",
     "Programming Language :: Python",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",

tox.ini

@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ envlist =
 	py312,
 	py313,
 	py314,
-	no-flask-caching,
-	docs
+	no-flask-caching
 
 [testenv]
 setenv =
@@ -44,11 +43,3 @@ basepython = python3.14
 basepython = python3.12
 deps =
 	.[sentry]
-
-[testenv:docs]
-changedir = docs
-deps =
-	Sphinx
-	structlog
-commands =
-	sphinx-build -W -b html -d {envtmpdir}/doctrees . {envtmpdir}/html