Re: A general plea: please stop creating stat ic, manually-updated lists of Fedora releases

On August 21, 2026 3:42:56 AM GMT+09:00, 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

Or abstraction layers built on top of it like https://github.com/rpm-software-management/fedora-distro-aliases
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