I remember that I proposed a similar idea on one of pre-covid OEDEM meetings during LTS discussions.
We discussed at least two approaches: date-based (e.g. after some date bitbake will print the message) and last-commit based (e.g when maintainer EOLs the branch his last commit will patch OE so it will print the message) As far as I remember we also discussed disadvantages. For the date-based approach disadvantage was if someone forks the branch but in mainline maintainer decided to extend support, he will patch the EOL date in mainline, but forked branch won't have it and will post annoying message during the build. For the last-commit approach, if someone forks the branch he will never receive that last commit unless he merges it, and may think the branch is still maintained while it isn't. Another idea was to do bitbake online check if the release is still supported (e.g. bitbake reaches some OE/Yocto servers online) but that may not work for people who don't use Internet connection for the build (BB_NO_NETWORK option is enabled) There were also some other discussions of that, however I don't remember any details. As a bottom line, we discussed it, but didn't have any action plan Thanks, Ruslan ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2022 9:13 PM To: openembedded-architecture <[email protected]> Subject: [Openembedded-architecture] should oe-core issue a warning when it reaches EOL? Hello, an idea just popped into my head that I don't remember having been discussed: Should stable-branch oe-core issue a warning via bitbake when it is close to EOL and perhaps a stronger warning when it has crossed it? I feel that this page: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Releases is not enough to ensure the message (of not using EOL yocto) reaches the users, and we need something better and directly seen by anyone invoking bitbake. Is it a terrible idea? Awesome idea? Ok-ish idea? Alex
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