-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/24/2015 06:48 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: > That would be FESCo. If more people hold your opinion, we should > probably file a ticket and ask them. It's definitely a valid > opinion. And it would definitely be easier for QA. But in this > case, I believe the work is worth it, because I personally know > many people who don't want to upgrade twice a year. And offering > people a way to upgrade just once a year (easily, i.e. not going > through consecutive upgrades) is something I consider essential for > an operating system.
With my FESCo hat on, I'll say this: I'd prefer that Fedora officially supports the two-release upgrade path. From anecdotal data, a significant percentage of our non-developer user-base is doing this already and is comfortable with the existing risks. Improving the situation can only serve to enhance our standing and reputation. Historically, the reason we have not done this was twofold: 1) Way back when we were doing Anaconda-based upgrades, I think it amounted to a technological limitation (please correct me if my information is wrong here). 2) The QA impact is non-zero when attempting to support two-version upgrades, but since this recommendation is coming *from* prominent QA team members, I'm assuming that this is a non-issue. Also, to add to the anecdotes, I've upgraded several family members directly from Fedora 21 to Fedora 23 in the last week with no issues whatsoever (of course, I also curate their repository selection, so they don't end up with incompatible packages). So I'd argue that we're already at the point where this is a real functional capability that we should just ensure doesn't get broken in the future (as opposed to needing to add new capabilities to enable two-version upgrades). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZUXZwACgkQeiVVYja6o6Mf6gCgmxG38vX0SqjSt2er9o6XHZRp oyQAniy4UE8lpcOP4kikoSHaPucR+G1b =MjGD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@lists.fedoraproject.org
