Timeline for Policy Change Proposal: "End of Standard Support" for ESM releases is effectively the "Not Supported" date for a release on Ask Ubuntu
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| Apr 9, 2021 at 19:45 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | literally in the help center? Help Center: What topics can I ask about?, "Questions that you should avoid", "Support for versions for Ubuntu releases past their Support or "End of Life" (EOL) — unless the question is asking how to upgrade to a supported release." - there's lack of clarification on "past their Support" which is what this modification proposal proposes to do - actually state what the 'past their support' date is as 'standard support' dates are now defined by Canonical and for each release. | |
| Apr 9, 2021 at 19:10 | comment | added | Wildcard | The only thing I can find resembling that is, "We currently consider all releases that are past their End of Standard Support dates off topic. This is to clarify that even if a release has an option of Extended Security Maintenance, that doesn't make it on topic if it is past its End of Standard Support date." Which doesn't sound like it needs a vote at all. It's just saying that the policy means what it says. Where is the actual policy, though? | |
| Apr 9, 2021 at 19:09 | comment | added | Wildcard | @ThomasWard I did read the question comments; my takeaway is that this is a clarification rather than a change. What would be most helpful for purposes of understanding would be a clear-cut description of "The Status Quo" and "The Proposed New Policy." | |
| Apr 9, 2021 at 18:35 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | It's not written anywhere for 'end of standard support' - the policy would be written so that it says "past the release's end of life or end of standard support period, whichever is first". You might want to read question comments. (And where were you 3 weeks ago with this comment?) | |
| Apr 9, 2021 at 17:59 | history | answered | Wildcard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |