On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 1:43 PM Adam Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Once again, I'm on a round of "branching happened and all these things > that have static lists of Fedora releases didn't notice". > > Exhibit A: https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/base-images/-/work_items/83 > Exhibit B: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/2210 > Exhibit C: > https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/base-images/-/blob/main/RELEASE.md#part-3-managing-fedora-versions-in-konflux > > yes these all happen to be bootc/coreos-related, but there are plenty > of offenders, that's just where I'm looking today. > > The Fedora release cycle moves quite fast. Something important happens > approximately every two months: a release branches, or goes stable, or > goes EOL. You are not going to reliably keep up with this manually, and > you should not be trying. > > There are two fairly solid ways you can check on what releases exist > and what state they're in: > > 1. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/releases > 2. https://fedorapeople.org/groups/qa/metadata/release.json
The fact that both of these services are gated behind Anubis is not going to help automated tooling access them at all... -- Aaron > The former has more information but requires a bit more effort to work > with. The latter is minimal but easy to work with (all you really need > to know is that, if the 'branched' list is empty, rawhide maps to > 'highest stable plus 1'; if branched is populated, rawhide maps to > 'highest branched plus 1'). Both are ultimately manually updated, but > the relevant releng SOPs now all have "update these things" in them, so > they get updated reliably. Certainly more reliably than your manual > list. > > It would be really, really great if, when folks are inventing new > things like this, they would handle this smartly. Either do not *have* > a "list of known releases" at all, or ensure there is a reliable, > automated process that updates it. > -- > Adam Williamson (he/him/his) > Fedora QA > Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @[email protected] > https://www.happyassassin.net > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
