End of life SOP

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Description

Each release of Fedora is maintained as laid out in the maintenance schedule. At the conclusion of the maintenance period, a Fedora release enters end of life status. This procedure describes the tasks necessary to move a release to that status.

Actions

Set date

• FESCo responsibilities:
  • Follow guidelines of maintenance schedule
  • Take into account any infrastructure or other supporting project resource contention
  • Announce the closure of the release to the package maintainers.

Reminder announcement

• from FESCo chair to f-devel-announce, f-announce-l, including
  • date of last update push (if needed)
  • date of actual EOL

Koji tasks

• disable builds by removing targets

koji remove-target dist-f12
koji remove-target dist-f12-updates-candidate

• Purge from disk the signed copies of rpms that are signed with the EOL'd release key

Bodhi tasks

In puppet, set the push scripts to not push the old release:

diff --git a/configs/system/fedora-updates-push
b/configs/system/fedora-updates-push
index 2c05334..39e25f7 100755
--- a/configs/system/fedora-updates-push
+++ b/configs/system/fedora-updates-push
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 SOURCE=/mnt/koji/mash/updates
 DEST=/pub/fedora/linux/updates/

-for rel in 11 12 13; do
+for rel in 12 13; do

 rsync -rlptDvHh --delay-updates $RSYNC_OPTS --exclude "repodata/*" \
         $SOURCE/f$rel-updates/ $DEST/$rel/ &>/dev/null
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ rsync -rlptDvHh --delay-updates $RSYNC_OPTS --delete
--delete-after \
         $SOURCE/f$rel-updates/ $DEST/$rel/ &>/dev/null

 done
-for rel in 11 12 13; do
+for rel in 12 13; do

 rsync -rlptDvHh --delay-updates $RSYNC_OPTS --exclude "repodata/*" \
         $SOURCE/f$rel-updates-testing/ $DEST/testing/$rel/ &>/dev/null

PackageDB

Set the release to be End of Life in the PackageDB. Currently, that's done with the following db queries:

-- For the Package ACLs
update collection set statuscode = 9 where name = 'Fedora' and version = '11'; 

-- For the Application Database
select * from repos where shortname ~'^F-11-.*' and active = true;
-- Check that only repositories for the EOL repo are listed.
BEGIN;
update repos set active = false where shortname ~ '^F-11-*' and active = true;
-- Make sure the same number of records were modified as previous select
COMMIT;

Source Control (CVS)

• Branches for new packages in CVS are not allowed for distribution X after the Fedora X+2 release. New builds are no longer allowed for EOL Fedora releases.

AutoQA

The AutoQA project maintains a config file (repoinfo.conf) that describes available package repositories and their inheritance. When a Fedora release is EOL'd, the repoinfo.conf file needs to be updated. Please file an autoqa ticket to modify the repoinfo.conf file to remove pointers to the EOL'd release.

Bugzappers Tasks

• Close all open bugs
• End of life process

Docs tasks

• any?

Final announcement

• from FPL to f-announce-l
  • on EOL date if at all possible
  • link to previous reminder announcement

Announcement content

• Consider this EOL announcement from openoffice.org
  • Note FAQ

Consider Before Running

• Resource contention in infrastructure, such as outages
• Extenuating circumstances for specific planned updates, if any
• ot