17 May
2023
17 May
'23
1:41 p.m.
On Sat, 13 May 2023 at 00:35, Scott Little <scott.little@windriver.com> wrote:
Thanks for your response Jay
Yes the <branch>-eol tag is somewhat useful, but it doesn't appear to be created until the branch is removed. There is no way for a downstream consumer to to prepare for the forthcoming branch deletion. There is no way to avoid a period of breakage.
This doesn't help you for train, but may save you some headaches in the future? You can keep an eye out for <branch>-em tags arriving. They're created when a project moves into Extended Maintenance mode. That's a pretty good signal that downstream consumers should expect the branch to translation to -eol "soon". Soon is hard to define but essentially it's a 6 month warning. Tony.