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

PackageDB

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

update collection set statuscode = 9 where name = 'Fedora' and version = '11'; 

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.

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