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Minor tweaks on EOL process
First, clarify that this is for planned deprecations, not security-related issues. Second, we actually _don't_ want to remove the versions from the approved list before the EOL date, or people will start getting warnings too early.
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Here are the steps that the maintainer should take when an old Tor release
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series reaches End of Life:
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series reaches End of Life. Note that they are _only_ for entire series that
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have reached their planned EOL: they do not apply to security-related
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deprecations of individual versions.
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=== 0. Preliminaries
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@ -15,11 +17,6 @@ series reaches End of Life:
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Send the announcement to tor-announce, tor-talk, tor-relays, and the
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packagers.
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2. A few days before End of Life:
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Get at least two of weasel/arma/Sebastian to
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remove the old version number from their approved versions list.
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Give them a few days to do this if you can.
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=== 1. On the day
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1. Open tickets to remove the release from:
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@ -44,9 +41,8 @@ series reaches End of Life:
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- other tickets should be closed (if we won't fix them) or moved to a
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supported release (if we will fix them)
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5. Double-check: did the version get un-recommended in the consensus yet?
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If not, don't announce until they have the up-to-date versions, or people
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will get confused.
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6. Mail the end of life announcement to tor-announce, the packagers list,
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5. Mail the end of life announcement to tor-announce, the packagers list,
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and tor-relays. The current list of packagers is in ReleasingTor.md.
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6. Get at least two of weasel/arma/Sebastian to remove the old version number
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from their approved versions list.
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