Re: Unclear EOL

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 02:42:55PM -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote:
> 
> > On Sep 5, 2018, at 14:37, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> > "the date past which the date of the next
> > point release is planned to come out."
> 
> But that's not what EOL means, right?  What the EOL date means is,
> "Past this date no further minor releases are anticipated."  If
> people are confused by this now, they will be *very* confused by
> publishing a release date that may or may not actually happen
> several years in the future.

That's an excellent point. I'm thinking we could supply only the dates
in the past and, only when we know it, one date in the future, so
something like:

Version     Current minor     Supported     First release date     EOL month      Last release date
10          10.5              Yes           October 2017           October 2022          N/A
9.6         9.6.10            Yes           September 2016         September 2021        N/A
9.5         9.5.14            Yes           January 2016           January 2021          N/A 
9.4         9.4.19            Yes           December 2014          December 2019         N/A 
9.3         9.3.24            Yes           September 2013         September 2018  November 8, 2018 (tentative)
9.2         9.2.24            No            September 2012         September 2017  November 9, 2017
...

Best,
David.
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