Plans for EL4 End of Life

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:40:36AM -0800, Christopher McCrory wrote:
> Hello...
> 
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 21:21 -0800, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> > So, we have about 60 days until EL4 goes to End of Life from Red
> > Hat[1] (and thus triggering CentOS, and I imagine Oracle, Scientific
> > et al).  
> > 
> > What are the plans for EPEL 4?  
> > 
> > The way I see we have a few options:
> > 
> > 1.  We stop putting new content in EPEL4 and take down the EPEL mirror
> > (thus really end-of-lifeing EPEL 4)
> > 2.  We stop putting in new content, and leave the mirrors, thus
> > allowing those who haven't migrated to ahve some sort of package
> > options, with no option for updates
> > 3.  We keep allow people to add content to EPEL4 due to things like
> > extended support
> > 4.  Some other option I haven't though about yet.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> What happens to the git repo branches?  If the branches stay then anyone
> still using RHEL4 could use git checkout, fedpkg, and mock to build
> their own packages with any security patches they need.
> 
The git branches will remain.  I don't believe we'd even close them out for
commits (Extra work to script that ;-).  koji would probably be closed to
new builds (even scratch), though.

-Toshio
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