On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Petr Pisar wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 03:02:02PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:13:16PM +0200, Daniel Mach wrote: [snip] > > > Setting eol_date to the future allows informing a user about > > > upcoming obsoleting event so they can eventually migrate manually. > > > > For some context (RHEL...) time-based obsoletes make plenty of sense. > > But in Fedora we established a policy that obsoletion and other > > significant stream changes happen at "release boundary", which for > > each user is whenever they choose to upgrade, so not time-based. > > > That's a great motivation, but this is not how it works in the real world. > > A packager asks for a branch and sets an end-of-life date. The date is > enforced to align with a Fedora cadence. I.e. 4th and 10th month of a year. The > packager builds a module from that branch for _all_ Fedoras and pushes the > builds to the stable repositories. Once the end-of-life day comes, the > packager stops maintaining the stream. That day there is exactly one Fedora > release that also reached the end of life. But all the newer Fedora releases > are still supported, but the stream there is not. You have an unsupported > stream in a supported Fedora release. > > That's the outcome of decoupling a stream life cycle from a Fedora life cycle. > My understanding of current policy is that it would not be permitted to have such a module in current fedora. It could only be included in a version of fedora where it will receive updates for the entire life cycle of that Fedora version. V/r, James Cassell _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
