[REQ] process for handling eol distros

[sozercan]

What kind of request is this?

Improvement of existing experience

What is your request or suggestion?

we should create a process for handling eol distros

after a distro is eol, how do we want to handle such as give users a warning for X amount of time, then eventually remove support?

Are you willing to submit PRs to contribute to this feature request?

• Yes, I am willing to implement it.

[sozercan]

Option 1:

• Provide warning to user as part of build process. However, this is only visible if user is manually running the build. This will get ignored in CI easily.
• In release notes, announce the EOL before we remove it in the consecutive release(s).

Option 2:

• Option 1 and
• Build break with the option to proceed with a known flag

We have some grace period before package repos are archived. After that older version builds will break even if user wants to use an older version of dalec. However, users can choose byo option to continue with archived repo if they wish