Re: Unclear EOL

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 02:42:55PM -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote:
>
> > On Sep 5, 2018, at 14:37, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > "the date past which the date of the next
> > point release is planned to come out."
>
> But that's not what EOL means, right? What the EOL date means is,
> "Past this date no further minor releases are anticipated." If
> people are confused by this now, they will be *very* confused by
> publishing a release date that may or may not actually happen
> several years in the future.

That's an excellent point. I'm thinking we could supply only the dates
in the past and, only when we know it, one date in the future, so
something like:

Version Current minor Supported First release date EOL month Last release date
10 10.5 Yes October 2017 October 2022 N/A
9.6 9.6.10 Yes September 2016 September 2021 N/A
9.5 9.5.14 Yes January 2016 January 2021 N/A
9.4 9.4.19 Yes December 2014 December 2019 N/A
9.3 9.3.24 Yes September 2013 September 2018 November 8, 2018 (tentative)
9.2 9.2.24 No September 2012 September 2017 November 9, 2017
...

Best,
David.
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