Retiring Unit

[thresheek]

Hello!

The development on the Unit project sadly, ceased, and it will no longer receive any feature or security updates. In fact, the code repo is soon to be archived.

Thus, I would like to understand a procedure to stop rebuilding the official images for Unit.

We would also need to alter the Hub page via the docs repo to let users know it's now unsupported in any way.

Thanks!

[yosifkit]

The procedure to stop rebuilds is to empty out the library/unit file save for the Maintainers and GitRepo fields (e.g. #17094 and #17276).

For the Hub pages, we have functionality for a deprecated.md that'll show prominently at the top of the description (e.g. docker-library/docs#2205 and https://hub.docker.com/_/centos). Feel free to word it as you wish. As seen in that PR we also recommend adding a "DEPRECATED" to the README-short.md so that it also shows up in search pages on Docker Hub.

[tianon]

We're also happy to help with any of that, if you need or want it. 🖤

[thresheek]

Thank you for a detailed explanation (as usual!)

@tianon I think it makes sense for me to do since it was me who introduced the image in the Library in the first place :) Full circle, all that...

[thresheek]

Thank you, I think it's all done now.