Drop support for EOLed Python versions about kafka-python HOT 7 OPEN

I intend to drop support for the older versions of Python after the next release, when I figure out what action to take with PyPi.

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I can provide a PR

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@a-detiste That likely won't hurt, but note that there still hasn't been any release since @wbarnha posted the above message. IIUC there's issues with communication with the owner of this repository.

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Correct, I don't have any updates until the owner gets back to me. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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kafka-python-ng==2.0.3 is now available!

pip3 install kafka-python-ng

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@wbarnha Interesting. Would it be possible to release that off of this repository instead of the fork?

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Not yet. If I were to release off this repository, it would create the initial impression to some people that kafka-python itself is getting updates into PyPi, which is not true. Additionally, I would have to go back, re-tag, re-release, and rerun the release workflows. I'm very cautious about messing up a project that is getting an estimate of 2.4M downloads per week (as of 3/10/2024) and I don't want to recreate the stressful mistakes I had when I was more actively maintaining https://github.com/faust-streaming/faust (which is actually how I ended up here, because I was trying to save this project as a dependency of aiokafka).

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