On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 12:02 PM Alexander Kanavin
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I too think that the information may never reach the target audience, as they 
> could never update their builds to the point where it would start printing 
> 'end of life'.

Would it make sense to include this message in base-files recipe?
Yocto does similar things with distro and machine name in /etc/issue
on target rootfs via do_install_basefilesissue(), so including this
state tag here would be also beneficial. Besides, users would see it
on every boot.

>
> What could work instead is printing a link to the wiki during 
> 'oe-init-build-env'.

IMHO: This I think is beneficial for developers, but rather obscure to
the general audience which is booting device....

>
> Alex
>
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 21:12, Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 07:46:38PM +0100, Ruslan Bilovol wrote:
>> > When OE/Yocto project goes through its lifecycle, there
>> > is no any way to identify where it is other than go
>> > to a Yocto wiki and look at current status.
>>
>> The status in the wiki can be updated.
>>
>> > Moreover, change from maintained to community maintained
>> > end EOLing happens silently so users not always know
>> > about that.
>> >
>> > This patch aims to remove this gap. The status should
>> > be changed so users can clearly identify at which point
>> > it is now:
>> >  Development -> Stable -> Community supported -> End Of Life
>> >
>> > It is now printed during the build.
>> >...
>>
>> What is printed is the status at the point in the
>> (sometime distant) past when a release was made.
>>
>> It is not uncommon for hardware to come with an example BSP based
>> on an older release like for example Yocto 2.0.3 (sic) today.
>>
>> The Yocto 2.0.3 release shipped as part of this distribution would
>> never print "End Of Life".
>>
>> cu
>> Adrian
>>
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