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Re: [DRAFT 1] [debathena-announce] End of life announcement for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Tue Apr 7 23:31:26 2009
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:30:49 -0400
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: Debathena <debathena@mit.edu>
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We should probably comment on the need to re-enable Debathena after
the upgrader comments it out of the sources.list.
(It still does that, right? I recall efforts to get ourselves a hook
to avoid that fate, but I don't expect we got it into the Hardy or
Intrepid upgraders.)
Other than that, looks like it says all the right things. I might put
both punchlines in the first graf, in addition to the subject line,
and coalesce the upgrade instructions into one graf toward the end.
But none of that is crucial.
Greg
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:47:53AM -0400, Evan Broder wrote:
> Reply-To: debathena@mit.edu
> To: debathena-announce@mit.edu
>
> Hi everyone -
> On April 18, 2009, Ubuntu will stop supporting Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
> Gibbon. As we have with previous Ubuntu releases, we will be
> desupporting Debathena on Gutsy at the same time. Any remaining users of
> Gutsy are encouraged to upgrade by that date, as Ubuntu typically
> removes releases from their apt repositories when a release reaches its
> end of life, making it difficult to upgrade to a newer release.
>
> Ubuntu only supports direct upgrades from Gutsy to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
> Hardy. Instructions for that process are available at
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades>. If you would like to
> upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, you should first upgrade to Hardy and
> then upgrade to Intrepid.
>
> We are also taking this opportunity to end Debathena support for Ubuntu
> 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake. Dapper is the oldest release that we currently
> support by almost a year, and it is showing its age. It lacks many
> features which have made Debathena functionality easy to develop, or in
> some cases, possible to develop. Furthermore, to the best of our
> knowledge, nobody has run Debathena on Dapper since September.
> Therefore, we will be ending support for Debathena Dapper on April 18th,
> at the same time as Gutsy.
>
> At this point, Ubuntu only currently supports upgrading from Dapper to
> Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy. Instructions for upgrading Dapper can also be
> found at <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades>.
>
> As always feel free to contact the Debathena team at debathena@mit.edu
> if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
>
> Thanks,
> - Evan
> for the SIPB Debathena Team
>
>
