On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 13:26:54 -0500 (EST) Kamil Paral <kpa...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I feel that for something as important as system upgrade, we should > > provide a better level of quality and assurance for upgrading > > across 2 releases. Currently we have no criterion and testing it is > > just an afterthought, not even tracked anywhere. I'd like to amend > > the existing criterion to include N-2 release as well, i.e.: > > > > "For each one of the release-blocking package sets, it must be > > possible to successfully complete an upgrade from a fully updated > > installation of any of the two previous stable Fedora releases with > > that package set installed." (language corrections very welcome) > > During QA meeting, people were generally in favor of this idea. I was > asked to check with Will Woods, system-upgrade maintainer. I did > that, and he has no objections. He says it's no extra work for him > and that the most work is needed from package maintainers when > designing dependencies, scriptlets, etc. This is something to > consider as well, but I think we implicitly want all packages to be > upgradable forward (even when skipping a release). And I don't > remember any issues with this lately. > > Does someone have some additional concerns about this? I'm +1 on N-2 upgrades blocking N's release. It'd be nice to have more automated upgrade tests, maybe with a few different configs but that's more into the details. Tim
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