On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 11:45 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > > Hi, > > In https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2803 Artem asked for a user-visible > notification when a Fedora stops being supported. Various proposals > for online checks were discussed in the bug, but I think we might make > do with something much simpler. > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/23924 proposes adding > SUPPORT_END=YYYY-MM-DD to /usr/lib/os-release. My idea would that we'd > e.g. pop up a desktop notification when that date is close, and a > bigger redder notification once it has been passed. The date could be > set to some initial value even on the initial release, and then > adjusted through updates to fedora-release.rpm if our schedule slips. > I guess we could add a notification during boot in systemd itself, but > most users wouldn't see that, so a graphical notification would also > be needed. > > The advantage of this proposal that it is very simple and will work > even on machines that don't have network connectivity, and can be easily > integrated into various DEs and tools. > > WDYT? >
Wouldn't it make sense to have the start date and the time period supported instead? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
