Deprecating images
The recent discussion about what to call the CentOS image going forward (CENTOS7-64-STD
), brings up the related issue of how to we "retire" the old versions of the images (CENTOS71-64-STD
, CENTOS72-64-STD
), or at least discourage their use going forward. Do we need a technical solution or just a sternly worded message to users?
On the technical front we could do things like only allow existing experiments to continue to use a deprecated image, and not allow new images to use them. Or we could rename them so they are no longer -STD
. Etc.