[ATrpms-devel] ATrpms stats for deciding on EOLing distros

[Alexander Bergolth]

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On 07/17/2006 12:40 PM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> the EOLing of some distros comes up often, and ATrpms is currently
> swamped by supporting so many distros. So I created some stats out of
> the first days of July which can be used for deciding on what to do.

> o less FC1 than RH9

Maybe I have an explanation for that:
I don't think that this actually means that there are more boxes running
RH9 than FC1. But there are much more apt and yum repositories and
mirrors of those repositories available for FC1 than for RH9. Maybe the
FC1 users are simply spread over a larger number of download-servers?

> FL plans to drop FC1 and FC2 by the end of July and RHL9/7.3 between
> October and December (although since there wasn't yet an announcement
> these dates may shift).

I think that following fedora legacy's policy would perfectly make
sense. (Though saying this hurts because I'm still running some FC1
boxes. ;))
Once Fedory Legacy's security updates are not provided anymore people
should upgrade anyway so I think this would be a good time to let ATrpms
support fade out.

> Therefore I'd like to suggest to do the following:
> 
> o keep as active distributions EL3-4 and FC3-6
>
> o demote the others in a staged way as
>   1) no builds for new (not updated) packages
>   2) updated packages failing to build under these old distros don't
>      get fixed, the distro simply gets this package cut.

Will you leave the last version online that did compile successfully?

>   3) no updates at all
>   4) removal from main master site

I think this staged abandoning is a clever way of dropping support.

Cheers,
- --leo
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