Ubuntu Wiki

To be carried out by: Ubuntu Release Manager

Goals:

• Inform users of a supported Ubuntu release of its imminent end-of-life and corresponding termination of maintenance and support

30 days prior to end of life:

• Send EndOfLifeAnnouncement to ubuntu-announce, ubuntu-security-announce

• Notify Amber Graner to add news item to UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

• Notify the web team (ellen.arnold@canonical.com, IRC: ellen)

At end of life:

• Set release to OBSOLETE in Launchpad (work with LOSA)

• update http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release and set the release to "Supported: 0" (mvo)

• update the ReleaseNotesURI in http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release so that it points to a EOL page, this informs the user that he is about to upgrade to a already EOL version of the distro (mvo)

• update https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases for Canonical support.

• Deactivate any milestones for the release. Look at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/$releasename/+milestones

• Archive the release on old-releases on antimony

• Move any images from cdimage.ubuntu.com to old-images and notify IS team for archival on antimony

• Remove the release from the archive (work with LOSA - send RT ticket) (crosscheck with OEM)

• Clear all packages from the partner repository for this release (work with release team) on cocoplum (crosscheck with OEM)

• Send EndOfLifeAnnouncement to ubuntu-announce, ubuntu-security-announce

• Notify the web team to remove release from the website (ellen.arnold@canonical.com, IRC: ellen)

CategoryProcess