[OE-core] [RFC] [PATCH] Provide users with project support status

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 07:46:38PM +0100, Ruslan Bilovol wrote:
> When OE/Yocto project goes through its lifecycle, there
> is no any way to identify where it is other than go
> to a Yocto wiki and look at current status.

The status in the wiki can be updated.

> Moreover, change from maintained to community maintained
> end EOLing happens silently so users not always know
> about that.
> 
> This patch aims to remove this gap. The status should
> be changed so users can clearly identify at which point
> it is now:
>  Development -> Stable -> Community supported -> End Of Life
> 
> It is now printed during the build.
>...

What is printed is the status at the point in the
(sometime distant) past when a release was made.

It is not uncommon for hardware to come with an example BSP based
on an older release like for example Yocto 2.0.3 (sic) today.

The Yocto 2.0.3 release shipped as part of this distribution would
never print "End Of Life".

cu
Adrian

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