Retire fedora22 buildbot?

[bnoordhuis]

Continuing from #579 (comment), FC22 has been EOL for the better part of a year now. Time to retire it?

[jbergstroem]

No objections. I can pull the plug if others agree.

[gibfahn]

SGTM

[mhdawson]

+1 from me

[MylesBorins]

+1 This does raise a question for @nodejs/LTS. Should we continue to build / test for platforms that go eol during lts?

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[bnoordhuis]

Good question. CentOS / RHEL 5 is another example, it's officially EOL as of last month. Windows XP we stopped supporting when MS did so it probably makes sense to do the same for other platforms.

[jasnell]

I agree. When a platform goes EOL, we should simply drop support and do any more releases for it past that point, even in LTS.

Considering that we shorten the lifetime of LTS for OpenSSL EOL, this would be consistent, I think.

[gibfahn]

If you specify the supported platforms for a version, then dropping support within a release line is arguably semver-major. I think we could be explicit about this by simply adding a sentence to BUILDING.md to say something like:

The below platforms are only under support while the upstream Platform or OS is supported by its maintainers.

or

Node.js is not supported on Platforms or OSs that are EoL.

EDIT: See nodejs/node#12672

[gibfahn]

From #699

@shigeki

The Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/14/introducing-ubuntu-12-04-esm-extended-security-maintenance/

Although it has an extended commercial support by Canonical, I would be happy if it is retied because it has an old gas version of 2.22 that needs deps/openssl/asm_obsolete/.

[ljharb]

Supported platforms are absolutely part of the API; dropping one that works is absolutely semver-major.

[gibfahn]

Supported platforms are absolutely part of the API; dropping one that works is absolutely semver-major.

Unless you specify otherwise right?