Re: A general plea: please stop creating static, manually-updated lists of Fedora releases
Adam Williamson <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 2026-08-20 at 14:02 -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 1:43 PM Adam Williamson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Once again, I'm on a round of "branching happened and all these things > > that have static lists of Fedora releases didn't notice". > > > > Exhibit A: https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/base-images/-/work_items/83 > > Exhibit B: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/2210 > > Exhibit C: https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/base-images/-/blob/main/RELEASE.md#part-3-managing-fedora-versions-in-konflux > > > > yes these all happen to be bootc/coreos-related, but there are plenty > > of offenders, that's just where I'm looking today. > > > > The Fedora release cycle moves quite fast. Something important happens > > approximately every two months: a release branches, or goes stable, or > > goes EOL. You are not going to reliably keep up with this manually, and > > you should not be trying. > > > > There are two fairly solid ways you can check on what releases exist > > and what state they're in: > > > > 1. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/releases > > 2. https://fedorapeople.org/groups/qa/metadata/release.json > > The fact that both of these services are gated behind Anubis is not > going to help automated tooling access them at all... Properly-formed requests bypass anubis. (Apply in a less-likely-to-be- scraped-location for details, or look at existing codebases that use these endpoints). -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @[email protected] https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new