+1
> On 15 Jan 2022, at 06:26, Nick V <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That sounds great. +1 to drop Ubuntu 16.04
>
> -Nick
>
>> On Jan 14, 2022, at 22:41, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I propose that we remove Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) from the CI matrix
>> and binary package generation systems.
>>
>> Ubuntu 16.04 stopped being a standard LTS release in April 2021 and is now
>> only supported through Canonical’s Extended Security Maintenance program. I
>> think the end of LTS is a reasonable standard to apply for removing support
>> in Apache CouchDB. If we apply this to Debian / Ubuntu / CentOS I believe we
>> end up with the following expiration dates:
>>
>> Debian 9: 06/2022
>> Debian 10: ~07/2024
>> Debian 11: ~08/2026
>>
>> Ubuntu 18.04: 04/2023
>> Ubuntu 20.04: 04/2025
>>
>> CentOS 7: 06/2024
>> CentOS 8: 12/2021*
>>
>> (Red Hat did a thing with CentOS where it switched from a rebuild of RHEL to
>> being upstream of RHEL, and they accelerated the EOL of CentOS 8 as part of
>> that).
>>
>> I’d like to get in the habit of proactively removing these releases from our
>> build system when they leave LTS rather than waiting around for something to
>> break. Any objections?
>>
>> Adam
