End of Life for unsupported boards
Get executive sign-off on End Of Life for unsupported hardware.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- David Zinman
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- David Zinman
- Definition:
- Superseded
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- David Zinman
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
[asac, Oct 17, 2011]: topic needs to be wider than in title; should be about "board support types and lifecycles"; needs to understand what levels of support exist and how boards get adopted; how they can go through the potential support levels and how board support gets phased out (EOL).
[asac, Oct 17, 2011]: blueprint should be moved to linaro; and rename it. ensure that its proposed for sprint and accepted. and use linaro-
[dzin, Oct 17, 2011]: superseded by https:/
Scope
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In:
SOC Boards that are no longer supported by the OEM
Define what EOL means:
* Maintenance after EOL
* Support for the community
* Phrases to be defined:
* Landing Team supported
* Platform supported
* Community supported
* The obligations to LT's, Platform Teams and Community after a board is determined to be EOL.
Out:
* boards that are currently supported by the OEM
* Note: while this scope statement can be used as a future guide, it refers only to hardware within the time-frame of this focus. Hardware that becomes unsupported or reaches EOL is not part of this project scope.
Invitees:
=====
Alexander
Anmar
David Z.
Scott
Zach
Joey
Representatives from Landing Teams
Representative from Executive Management
Notes:
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Consensus on what it means to EOL a board.
Define Linaro's involvement with an EOL board:
builds
bug fixing
boot testing
