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diff --git a/doc/HACKING/EndOfLifeTor.md b/doc/HACKING/EndOfLifeTor.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2fece2ca9d..0000000000 --- a/doc/HACKING/EndOfLifeTor.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ - -End of Life on an old release series ------------------------------------- - -Here are the steps that the maintainer should take when an old Tor release -series reaches End of Life. Note that they are _only_ for entire series that -have reached their planned EOL: they do not apply to security-related -deprecations of individual versions. - -### 0. Preliminaries - -0. A few months before End of Life: - Write a deprecation announcement. - Send the announcement out with every new release announcement. - -1. A month before End of Life: - Send the announcement to tor-announce, tor-talk, tor-relays, and the - packagers. - -### 1. On the day - -1. Open tickets to remove the release from: - - the jenkins builds - - tor's Travis CI cron jobs - - chutney's Travis CI tests (#) - - stem's Travis CI tests (#) - -2. Close the milestone in Trac. To do this, go to Trac, log in, - select "Admin" near the top of the screen, then select "Milestones" from - the menu on the left. Click on the milestone for this version, and - select the "Completed" checkbox. By convention, we select the date as - the End of Life date. - -3. Replace NNN-backport with NNN-unreached-backport in all open trac tickets. - -4. If there are any remaining tickets in the milestone: - - merge_ready tickets are for backports: - - if there are no supported releases for the backport, close the ticket - - if there is an earlier (LTS) release for the backport, move the ticket - to that release - - other tickets should be closed (if we won't fix them) or moved to a - supported release (if we will fix them) - -5. Mail the end of life announcement to tor-announce, the packagers list, - and tor-relays. The current list of packagers is in ReleasingTor.md. - -6. Ask at least two of weasel/arma/Sebastian to remove the old version - number from their approved versions list. - -7. Update the CoreTorReleases wiki page. |