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End Of Life for a Mageia release
- Announce what we're going to do to bugsquad and dev mailing lists.
There are currently 421 open bug reports for Mageia 4, which has reached its end of life two days ago. Bug Squad is going to follow the steps at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Maintenance_of_bug_reports Roughly: first clean up what's easy to clean up (done already), then send automated comments to all Mageia 4 open bug reports (see model in link above), giving a one month delay to change the version to a later one if the bug report is still valid. After one month, all remaining Mageia 4 bug reports will be closed as RESOLVED OLD. Where do *you* intervene? By making sure that the bugs you reported or that were assigned to you, or that you have interest in are not closed erroneously if they are still valid. So please take a few minutes to go through your Mageia 4 bugs, or simply don't ignore the bugzilla notifications that are about to reach your inbox. Here are links to save you some time: * Mageia 4 bugs by assignee: https://lstu.fr/mga4-bugs-by-assignee-name * Mageia 4 bugs by reporter: https://lstu.fr/mga4-bugs-by-reporter Best regards, Samuel Verschelde, on behalf of Bug Squad.
- Look for RPM package requests, make sure they are actually RPM package requests, and set them to cauldron.
- Look for backport requests, make sure they are actually backport requests, and close them as old explaining that Mageia n has reached EOL.
Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further updates. As a result we are closing this bug report. If you would like to help with updates and backports in the future, don't hesitate to join the packager team via our mentoring program [1], our QA Team (who tests the updates and backport candidates and always welcomes help) [2] or join the teams that fit you most [3]. [1] https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager [2] https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_Team [3] http://www.mageia.org/contribute/
- Look for enhancement requests against the "RPM Packages" component) and set those that are still valid to cauldron.
- Look for installer or release bugs (should be set to cauldron already but we might have missed some). Check they are really installer or release bugs and set them to cauldron with NEEDINFO and asking if still valid.
Installer and Release bugs version should always be set to cauldron, because once the ISOs for a stable version have been created, they cannot be changed. This bug was filed for Mageia 4. Was this bug still valid for Mageia 5? (If so, please do _not_ set the version to "5". Only asking because if it was still valid for Mageia 5, that then we'll know we'll have to pay attention to this issue when testing the next version's alpha's and later). Please close this bug report as FIXED if the problem was solved in Mageia 5.
- Mass message for Mageia n bugs announcing that we are going to close the bugs still set to Mageia n, so that people can set them to cauldron or Mageia n+1. Give one month of delay.
Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Mageia version. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we weren't able to fix it before Mageia 4's end of life. If you are able to reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia. If it's valid in several versions, select the highest and add MGAxTOO in whiteboard for each other valid release. Example: it's valid in cauldron and Mageia 5, set to cauldron and add MGA5TOO. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Mageia release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. If you would like to help fixing bugs in the future, don't hesitate to join the packager team via our mentoring program [1] or join the teams that fit you most [2]. [1] https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager [2] http://www.mageia.org/contribute/
- Manually check critical bugs and maybe major bugs for important bug reports we don't want to lose if reporters or packagers don't reply within one month: set to Mageia n+1 / cauldron.
- One month later, mass close as RESOLVED OLD with EOL message.
As announced over a month ago, Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. This issue may have been fixed in a later Mageia release, so, if you still see it and didn't already do so: please upgrade to Mageia 5 (or, if you read this much later than this is written: make sure you run a currently maintained Mageia version) If you are able to reproduce it against a maintained version of Mageia, you are encouraged to 1. reopen this bug report, by changing the "Status" from "RESOLVED - OLD" to "REOPENED" 2. click on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia. If you know it's valid in several versions, select the highest and add MGAxTOO in whiteboard for each other valid release. Example: it's valid in cauldron and Mageia 5, set to cauldron and add MGA5TOO. 3. give as much relevant information as possible. If you're not an experienced bug reporter and have some time: please read this page: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly If you see a similar issue, but are _not_sure_ it is the same, with the same cause, then please file a new bug report and mention this one in it (please include the bug number, too). If you would like to help fixing bugs in the future, don't hesitate to join the packager team via our mentoring program [1] or join the teams that fit you most [2]. [1] https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager [2] http://www.mageia.org/contribute/