End-of-Life Process

The lifespan of a major version is one year long, after that time, the version has reached its end-of-life. To properly deprecate a major of Vitess follow the following steps:

• Update the website documentation

  • In the 'Releases' documentation, the EOL version must be moved under the 'Archived Releases' section.
  • The sidebar of the website must be changed. We need to remove the EOL version from it. To do so, we move the version folder onto the archive folder.
  • Add a redirect from the old URL to the new URL in ./layouts/index.redirects under the Redirect archived docs section.

• Delete the Backport To: ... label

  • Delete the corresponding label for the EOL version, we do not want to motivate anymore backport to the EOL release branch.

• Update the Golang Upgrade GitHub Action Workflow

  • The Update Golang Version workflow must be updated to stop upgrading the version we are EOLing.

• Make proper announcement on Slack

  • Notify the community of this deprecation.