[7464] in Release_7.7_team
Re: hardy de-support announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Wed Apr 20 19:30:19 2011
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:30:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: "release-team@mit.edu Team" <release-team@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Please review the following and get me feedback by 4/28. Silence will
> be interpreted as approval.
>
> To: release-announce, debathena-announce
> Subject: Support changes for Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.10
Can this be less circumlocutory? Like "Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop and 9.10 being
desupported" or so?
> Hello,
>
> On May 12, 2011, Ubuntu will end "Desktop" support for 8.04 (Hardy
> Heron). At that time, Debathena will also end support for the "desktop"
> environment on Ubuntu 8.04. This means that no new updates or security
> fixes will be pushed out for any Debathena packages included as part of
> debathena-login-graphical or debathena-workstation. (debathena-cluster
> was never supported on Hardy, and any users running debathena-cluster on
> Hardy should upgrade immediately to Ubuntu 10.04 - Lucid). Since Ubuntu
> 10.04 (Lucid) has been available for over a year at this point, all
> Hardy users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Lucid. However, we
> anticipate continuing to provide security fixes only for software in the
> debathena-login and debathena-standard metapackages through 2013, though
> we reserve the right to amend that date based on user demand and
> available development resources.
>
> On April 28, 2011, Ubuntu will end all support for 9.10 (Karmic Koala).
> At that time, Debathena will also end all support for 9.10. Any
> remaining Karmic users are encouraged to upgrade to Lucid (10.04)
> immediately.
At some point, probably here, we should mention that Lucid is a long-term
support release and will be supported until 2013 on the desktop and 2015
on servers.
> Finally, this e-mail should serve as a reminder that Ubuntu Jaunty
> (9.04) was de-supported at the end of October 2010, and has not received
> security updates or bugfixes for nearly 6 months. Existing Jaunty users
> should upgrade to Lucid (10.04) immediately. However, anyone using
> Athena for coursework or other mission-critical applications is strongly
> encouraged to test all software on the IS&T Athena cluster workstations
> prior to upgrading.
Or athena.dialup, right?
> Sincerely,
>
> Jonathan Reed
> Athena Release Team
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Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
