EOL announcements

[Thom Holwerda]

We at OSNews will post EOL announcements too (we do it for Fedora and
Windows as well, among others) and I would definitely like to publish
Ubuntu EOLs too-- however, I will not subscribe to security-announce
*just* for EOLs. Being a member of the "press" (I have a hard time
seeing websites as "press" but oh well), I am already subscribed to
about 2198646239 mailinglists to get news, you see.

I think EOL's are important enough to be sent to ubuntu-announce as
well.


Thom Holwerda
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Managing editor at http://www.osnews.com


On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 00:10 -0800, Corey Burger wrote:
> I have now seen several comments on about the recent Hoary EOL
> announcement only being sent to security-announce and not -announce as
> well. All of those comments seemed to indicate to me that sending only
> to the former is not going to get enough publicity.
> 
> Then I remembered that of all the news outlets I know, only LWN
> regularly carries EOL announcements. They have carried all the recent
> Fedora and our Warty one. However, after extensive search, I did not
> find an article about Hoary's EOL on LWN.
> 
> This leads me to believe the following: If LWN did not pick it up, it
> is a fair bet it didn't get widely circulated enough. With that in
> mind, can we resend the EOL announcement to -announce and make it part
> of policy that EOL announcements go to both?
> 
> Corey
>