Hi, On July 6, 2022 3:44:49 PM UTC, "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?
I like this idea! As long as we never move an eol earlier, I see very little potential issues. Cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ 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
