Timeline for Is it the time to redefine "end of life"?
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| Jun 26, 2020 at 7:31 | comment | added | VidathD | Even now, the majority interpret EOL as "End of Standard Support" which is why everyone is flagging 14.04 as EOL even though it is technically not until 2022. So for me, it makes sense to change the flag name to "End of Standard Support" I agree with @Kulfy. There was an extensive discussion about this in the downboat | |
| Sep 15, 2019 at 3:42 | comment | added | v010dya | @Kulfy Wrong. Currently releases that have not reached EOL are in scope, but the OP wants to redefine EOL, which de-facto will change the scope. I want the scope to remain as it. Perhaps we can add a tag "End of Public Support". | |
| Sep 14, 2019 at 11:56 | comment | added | Kulfy | Well honestly speaking, I don't think people here on Ask Ubuntu actually take interest in answering those questions. (Reference: jrg's comment). Moreover, the intent of this question was to reconsider the definition of EOL not the scope of the website. If you think EOL releases should be on-topic, please ask a new question. Thanks :) | |
| Sep 12, 2019 at 18:26 | comment | added | v010dya | @Kulfy I see where we differ. You seem to think that EOL meant "end of public support" and thus consider other uses to be an extension of EOL. However, i would agrue that EOL means (and always meant) "end of support"; thus it is not about extending or not extending, it is about limiting or not limiting. I do not have any extended security management, but if somebody were to answer a question with a sourced "It is not possible, but you can do that if you ESM" i would definitely upvote that answer. True it is not useful for everybody, but not having such answer is not useful to anybody. | |
| Sep 12, 2019 at 14:08 | comment | added | Kulfy | Extending EOL means opting Extended Security Maintenance. For ESM, private archives are provided from where users can download/install packages. We on Ask Ubuntu won't know which packages are being provided to them. Also, in Ubuntu packages and dependencies could be very much different. For example, 12.04 is currently in ESM. Most of the packages still depend on Python 2 but this ain't true for releases after 18.04. You may find this meta Q&A interesting. PS: I didn't downvote your answer. | |
| Sep 12, 2019 at 3:22 | comment | added | v010dya | Excelent. Downvote with no comment, because "I want people to stop answering questions I don't like because reasons and because I don't like". | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 19:21 | history | answered | v010dya | CC BY-SA 4.0 |