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.

Action

Set date

• FESCo responsibility
  • Should follow guidelines of maintenance schedule
  • Take into account any infrastructure or other supporting project resource contention

Reminder announcement

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

QA tasks

• Bugzilla?

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

Considerations

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