Elaborate on Extended Maintenance to EOL transition
This adds a little more wording around end of life for stable branches to make sure it's clear that a team can decide to go directly from EM to EOL without needing to wait 6 months for an "Unmaintained" phase to complete. Also fixes some minor nits while I'm here. Change-Id: I92542012108f0aa07e28968479cdaddf7e06301d Signed-off-by: Sean McGinnis <sean.mcginnis@gmail.com>
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Stable Branches
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=================
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The stable branches are intended to be a safe source of fixes for high impact
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bugs and security issues which have been fixed on master since a given release.
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* All bugfixes (that meet the criteria described below) are
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appropriate. No Releases produced, reduced CI commitment.
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- * Unmaintained
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* 6 months
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* 0 - 6 months
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* The branch is under Extended Maintenance rules, but there are no
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maintainers
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maintainers.
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- * End of Life (EOL)
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* N/A
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* Branch no longer accepting changes
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* Branch no longer accepting changes.
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It is not required that all projects for a given branch transition between
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phases at the same time. For example it's quite reasonable for the
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End of Life
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After a project/branch exceeds the time allocation as `Unmaintained`_, it
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will be become End of Life. The HEAD of the appropriate branch will be tagged
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After a project/branch exceeds the time allocation as `Unmaintained`, or a team
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decides to explicitly end support for a branch, it
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will become End of Life. The HEAD of the appropriate branch will be tagged
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as ``$series-eol`` and the branch deleted.
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Appropriate Fixes
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