From 1f0b87fc47c5bcc3fad0c395501f47994442228f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Fenzi Date: Aug 31 2022 19:49:55 +0000 Subject: Add initial policy for end of life EPEL releases Signed-off-by: Kevin Fenzi --- diff --git a/modules/ROOT/pages/epel-policy.adoc b/modules/ROOT/pages/epel-policy.adoc index 23b253a..dbe6551 100644 --- a/modules/ROOT/pages/epel-policy.adoc +++ b/modules/ROOT/pages/epel-policy.adoc @@ -361,3 +361,14 @@ Unretiring an EPEL-only package requires a re-review. 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.