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

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 04:22:54PM +0200, Alexander Bergolth wrote:
> On 07/17/2006 12:40 PM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > 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?

That's open to debate. I'm already doing that with some packages like
openct/sc where the latest upstream sources don't build on RH7.3 and
RH8.0 anymore. PErhaps even seomthing to consider on a package by
package basis. E.g. if the package is less critical/less used then
putting work into it's getting a new build slot for the older version
only for the deprecated releases is maybe too much trouble.

> >   3) no updates at all
> >   4) removal from main master site
> 
> I think this staged abandoning is a clever way of dropping support.

Any ideas on how to tune the dates?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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