On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 09:39:47AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Yeah, I think that'd be better then simply dropping them, if
it's
> reasonably easy to implement. By releasing those updates we make
> things a bit nicer for users who are staying on a
> now-slightly-but-as-time-goes-on-more-and-more-so out-of-date release,
> and we'd be conserving the work of our packagers. But if it would be a
> major hassle for infra or releng, then meh.
>
I think a phased approach would be (hopefully) easy to implement.
1. Stop builds at <date>
2. Stop submitting updates on <date>+1 week
2½. Push to stable all updates with non-negative karma at <date>+2 weeks?
3. Stop allowing pushes to stable on <date>+2 weeks.
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