Automate Further

[captn3m0]

Wanted to track our progress on the automation front somewhere. Our current automation deals primarily with updating the latest releases in known release cycles. (Next step is to notify of a new release cycle showing up).

For 83 out of the 136 products we track, we have release data available (https://github.com/endoflife-date/release-data/tree/main/releases). The remaining are these:

Many of these can't be automated. I've left a 💡 wherever I think we should look into automating this. Some of these are covered incorrectly by our current framework (Such as debian's distrowatch page not including minor releases). Many will require too much effort - probably the Microsoft ones. But for some, we might have a few easy ones still left.

• android 💡
• apache-http-server 💡
• azure-devops
• centos 💡
• citrix-apps-desktops
• coldfusion 💡
• debian 💡
• dotnetfx 💡
• filemaker 💡
• firefox 💡
• fortios 💡
• freebsd 💡
• intelprocessors
• internetexplorer
• iphone 💡
• java 💡
• kdeplasma 💡
• kindle
• libreoffice 💡
• lineageos 💡
• linuxmint 💡
• looker 💡
• moodle 💡
• msexchange
• mssharepoint
• mssqlserver
• nixos 💡
• nokia
• office
• openbsd 💡
• openssl 💡
• opensuse
• pan-os 💡
• pan-xdr 💡
• pixel
• readynas
• redhat 💡
• ros
• samsungmobile
• sles 💡
• surface
• typo3 💡
• unity 💡
• visualstudio
• vmware-esxi 💡
• vmware-horizon 💡
• windowsEmbedded
• windows
• windowsServer
• yocto 💡

[captn3m0]

Added automation for COS: #2050. We have a new PR for NPM as well, which should be merged soon.

GKE was resolved in endoflife-date/release-data#39

[marcwrobel]

There is also a new PR for Debian (endoflife-date/release-data#43).

[marcwrobel]

@captn3m0, for android (and other products who does not declare the latest field) the idea would be to just automate the appearance of new major versions ?

[captn3m0]

Yes.

[captn3m0]

Or atleast, get the dates sorted, and we get notified of new releases.

[noqcks]

Should we add automation for kubernetes to the list? I don't believe that exists yet, does it?

[captn3m0]

It's already configured against git tags on k8s:

endoflife.date/products/kubernetes.md

Lines 13 to 15 in 7d1d4d4

	auto:
	- git: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes.git
	regex: ^v(?<major>[1-9]\d*)\.(?<minor>0|[1-9]\d*)\.(?<patch>0|[1-9]\d*)$

We still have to add new major versions, same as other products.

https://endoflife.date/kubernetes mentions "Latest releases are automatically updated" as well.

[marcwrobel]

A more up-to-date list is available in release-data's README: https://github.com/endoflife-date/release-data.