On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 4:59 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:57 AM Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> wrote: > > [PATCH 03/10] cirrus/macos: update to macos ventura > > I don't know any reason not to push this one too, but it's not time critical.
Some observations: * macOS has a new release every year in June[1] * updates cease after three years[1] * thus three releases are in support (by that definition) at a time * we need an image on Cirrus; 13 appeared ~1 month later[2] * we need Homebrew support; 13 appeared ~3 months later[3] * we have 13 and 12 in the buildfarm, but no 11 * it's common for developers but uncommon for servers/deployment So what should our policy be on when to roll the CI image forward? I guess around New Year/now (~6 months after release) is a good time and we should just do it. Anyone got a reason why we should wait? Our other CI OSes have slower major version release cycles and longer lives, so it's not quite the same hamster wheel of upgrades. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history#Releases [2] https://github.com/orgs/cirruslabs/packages?tab=packages&q=macos [3] https://brew.sh/2022/09/07/homebrew-3.6.0/
