overlap or pre-announcement for point release ISO downloads

[dann frazier]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 03:44:17PM +0000, Anthony Kirby wrote:
> Thank you for the recent point release of Focal, i.e. 20.04.4!
> 
> When the 20.04.4 point release was announced (
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2022-February/000277.html),
> the previous point release server download  i.e.
> https://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/ubuntu-20.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso was
> removed.
> 
> Could you consider an overlap period, so that people who consume this have
> an opportunity to update their processes?  A week of overlap before the the
> previous version is deleted would be really helpful.  Or alternatively an
> announcement that the switch was about to occur would give people a chance
> to prepare.

Hi Anthony!

  I'm not a release team member, but I'm curious about your use
case. If you are e.g. scripting a download of the ISO, would it be
possible to build in an automatic fallback to the old-releases
archive?

  https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/focal/

  -dann