That sounds great. +1 to drop Ubuntu 16.04 -Nick
> On Jan 14, 2022, at 22:41, 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
