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+End of Life on an old release series
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+------------------------------------
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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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+
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+=== 0. Preliminaries
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+
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+0. A few months before End of Life:
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+ Write a deprecation announcement.
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+ Send the announcement out with every new release announcement.
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+
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+1. A month before 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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+
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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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+
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+=== 1. On the day
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+
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+1. Open tickets to remove the release from:
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+ - the jenkins builds
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+ - tor's Travis CI cron jobs
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+ - chutney's Travis CI tests (#)
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+ - stem's Travis CI tests (#)
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+
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+2. Close the milestone in Trac. To do this, go to Trac, log in,
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+ select "Admin" near the top of the screen, then select "Milestones" from
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+ the menu on the left. Click on the milestone for this version, and
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+ select the "Completed" checkbox. By convention, we select the date as
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+ the End of Life date.
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+
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+3. Replace NNN-backport with NNN-unreached-backport in all open trac tickets.
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+
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+4. If there are any remaining tickets in the milestone:
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+ - merge_ready tickets are for backports:
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+ - if there are no supported releases for the backport, close the ticket
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+ - if there is an earlier (LTS) release for the backport, move the ticket
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+ to that release
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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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+
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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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+
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+6. 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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teor