On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 9:29 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek < zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 03:12:44PM +0200, Marius Schwarz wrote: > > Am 27.05.20 um 08:25 schrieb Artur Iwicki: > > > While I understand the mechanism, I think that this needs to be > communicated more clearly. I've been a packager for close to 3 years now > and I admit until I read this e-mail I wasn't quite sure whether "no > updates after EOL" meant "you can't submit stuff to bodhi", or whether it > meant "the updates repo is frozen solid, whatever didn't make it in, well > shucks". (As we can see, it's the latter.) > > > > I checked that update in question and it was ready 9 days ago, but > > simply noone cared to give it karma. > > > > I think: To make to work effort acknowlaged, maintainers put into theire > > work, all finished/not failed updates should be send to stable when EOL > > is flipped. > > Yeah, I think that'd be better then simply dropping them, if it's > reasonably easy to implement. By releasing those updates we make > things a bit nicer for users who are staying on a > now-slightly-but-as-time-goes-on-more-and-more-so out-of-date release, > and we'd be conserving the work of our packagers. But if it would be a > major hassle for infra or releng, then meh. > I think a phased approach would be (hopefully) easy to implement. 1. Stop builds at <date> 2. Stop submitting updates on <date>+1 week 3. Stop allowing pushes to stable on <date>+2 weeks. Something like that anyway. Thanks, Richard
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