what to do with stretch?

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

Mattia, thanks for bringing this up!

On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 10:42:50AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Today buster is being released, and I think we will do some shuffling to
> copy the buster data into the new bullseye shortly after, so we can
> start test for that as well.

yup. (though i'm not sure i'll be able to get to this before arriving at
DebCamp...)

> That begs the question: what do we want to do with stretch?
> 
> I think it's not quite useful anymore to keep around, nothing is going
> to change anymore there, so I propose to drop it entirely (at most
> keeping the suite-wide stats and graphs, for reference).

yes, to both.

> Do anybody think there is any gain in an "archival" of sorts?  In that
> case I suppose we could do something to kind of hide the archived suites
> from the package pages (as IMHO it's already crowded enough) and keep
> everything there, without rebuilding anything anymore)

I think if the cost is just diskspace, we might be able to keep those
results, but then, I'm still not convinced its worth the little costs.
I'm curious what other people think..!


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