Thanks for the quick feedback! Filed some PRs: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/3898 (main) https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/3899 (3.x) https://github.com/apache/couchdb-pkg/pull/88 https://github.com/apache/couchdb-ci/pull/31
Cheers, Adam > On Jan 15, 2022, at 6:03 AM, Robert Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote: > > +1 > >> On 15 Jan 2022, at 06:26, Nick V <vatam...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 >
