Announcement for End of Community Support for deegree 3.4.x

[tfr42]

It’s been 4 years since deegree 3.4.0 was released and it is time to announce some changes regarding the end of community support for OSGeo deegree 3.4 release line.

While users of deegree 3.4.x will continue to see releases for security and critical issues until the End of Life (EOL) date, all users are advised to upgrade to deegree 3.5 asap.

Next actions:

• GitHub wiki is updated
• GitHub Security Policy is updated
• TMC decides on a date for the official End of Community Support for deegree 3.4.
• EOL is announced on mailing list and website
• branch 3.4-main is set to archived (read-only protected)

[tfr42]

The EOL date of 3.4 line will be 3 months after general availibility of 3.5.0 release. (TMC meeting 2022-07-27)

[tfr42]

• Community support for 3.4 line ends with first stable release of 3.5 line
• EOL for 3.4 is 3 months after community support ends

Action	Before end of community support	End of community support (Date TBD)	End of Life (Date TBD)	After EOL
Community PRs reviewed and integrated	✅	❌	❌	❌
Community triggered releases	✅	❌	❌	❌
Severe bugs affecting only the 3.4-main branch will be fixed	✅	✅	❌	❌
Security vulnerability reports will be checked against the 3.4-main branch	✅	✅	❌	❌
Severe / security issues triggered releases	✅	✅	❌	❌
Nightly and release build jobs available and active on Jenkins	✅	✅	❌	❌
Download of 3.4.x releases available from website and Nexus repo	✅	✅	✅	✅
Documentation of 3.4.x releases available from website	✅	✅	✅	✅
XML schema files of 3.4.x config files available from website	✅	✅	✅	✅

[stephanr]

A possible simplification would be to use the releases in a tabular version similar to Ubuntu, like:

deegree Version	Java Version	Release Date	End of regular Releases	End of Life
3.5.x	11	yyyy-yy-yy
3.4.x	1.8	xxxx-xx-xx	yyyy-yy-yyy	zzzz-zz-zz

[tfr42]

With the release of version 3.5 we will end providing regular releases for the 3.4 line. Releases from the 3.4-main branch are highly unlikely, and only security related issues might be fixed and a bug fix version provided.

[tfr42]

Tabel with EOL is added to wiki.