PR#196: Add initial policy for end of life EPEL releases - epel

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#196 Add initial policy for end of life EPEL releases

Merged 2 years ago by tdawson. Opened 2 years ago by kevin.

kevin/epel epel-eol-release-policy into main

Add initial policy for end of life EPEL releases

Kevin Fenzi • 2 years ago

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modules/ROOT/pages/epel-policy.adoc

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		`No re-review is required to unretire an EPEL branch if the package is`
		`still in Fedora.`
		`+`
		`+ [[policy_for_end_of_life_releases]]`
		`+ == Policy for End of Life releases`
		`+`
		`+ When a RHEL release reaches the end of the Maintenance Support phase`
		`+ https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life_Cycle_Dates[ RHEL life cycle ]`
		`+ , The corresponding EPEL release also goes End of Life.`
		`+ On the day Maintenance Support ends for the RHEL release, koji build targets are removed and`
		`+ it is no longer possible to build or distribute new EPEL packages.`
		`+ A short time after that, the now end of life EPEL repository is moved to`
		`+ archives and mirrormanager is adjusted to serve that repository from archives.`

kevin commented 2 years ago

Here's an inital cut of this. Changes welcome.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com

tdawson commented 2 years ago

LGTM
Sounds like what we decided on in last weeks meeting.

carlwgeorge commented on line 9 of modules/ROOT/pages/epel-policy.adoc 2 years ago

Can we be more specific than "End of Life"? I believe most of us understand what that means, but for the policy I think we should explicitly say "When a RHEL release reaches the end of the Maintenance Support phase" with a link to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life_Cycle_Dates.

carlwgeorge commented on line 9 of modules/ROOT/pages/epel-policy.adoc 2 years ago

s/corisponding/corresponding/

gotmax23 commented on line 10 of modules/ROOT/pages/epel-policy.adoc 2 years ago

s/day of End of Life/End of Life date/

rebased onto 1f0b87f

2 years ago

kevin commented 2 years ago

New version pushed. ;)

carlwgeorge commented 2 years ago

I like the changes.

Just had a thought, should we also add another sentence saying with the equivalent information about EPEL Next? It could reference the end of the Active Support phase.

tdawson commented 2 years ago

Although I like Carl's idea, let's get this pull request merged and start a new one for that.

I have verified that this builds and the link is correct.