End of life policy

[Justin Zobel]

On 23/1/25 03:06, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dimecres, 22 de gener del 2025, a les 4:35:53 (Hora estàndard del Centre
> d’Europa),rhkramer at gmail.com va escriure:
>> On Tuesday, January 21, 2025 05:16:25 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>> Is it not a consequence from the fact that there's no more releases
>>> planned?
>>>
>>> It's weird to say "for things that we don't plan releases there will no be
>>> releases"
>>>
>>> What would you write?
>>  From the peanut gallery: How about:
>>
>> No more releases planned for this project.
>>
>> and perhaps, in parenthesis after that, something like (end of project)
> But we're not speaking about end of project.
>
> We are speaking about the fact that Okular 24.12.x is not going to be released
> anymore because Okular 25.04.x is the next release series, not that we're not
> going to release Okular at all anymore.
>
> Cheers,
>    Albert

I guess I should try to expand on my thoughts before throwing my ideas 
at the mailing list.

I think my original thought was several fold:

1. How long/which version (tied together as our releases are done at 
regular intervals) do we support each release for things KDE produces, 
e.g. Gear, Plasma, Frameworks?

2. Document this information clearly on our Wiki.

3. On the documentation side, have a single Wiki page per release type 
(Gear, Frameworks, Plasma) that details this.

for example:

Gear

Current supported versions: 24.12.*

Version     Release Date Supported

==================================================

24.12       Released 19th December 2024 Yes

24.08       Released 5th August 2024 End of Life*

...

All the older releases...


* End of Life text would be a link to a page on the wiki would describe 
that KDE software is regularly released and it is always recommended to 
upgrade to the latest released version. End of Life software does not 
receive important security updates or bug fixes. More text here about 
why that is important, etc.


I think my goal overall is to set expectations for users and developers 
clearly on our wiki. Don't target End of Life software for development 
and let users know that versions like 24.08, 24.05, 24.02 etc on LTS 
type distros are not supported any longer.
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