belated +1 :)
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> On 15. Jan 2022, at 04:41, Adam Kocoloski <kocol...@apache.org> 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
