If this is a *product* policy ... should this be documented somewhere? Thanks!

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Kevin Grandon <[email protected]> wrote:
> I haven't found any documentation on this. I only remember because I asked
> around the 2.0 release and it's what product decided on as a policy at the
> time.
>
> It could potentially be different now, though ~2 releases seems like a
> reasonable upgrade lifetime to me, and if needed we could always force
> multiple upgrade steps for full migration capability.
>
> Best,
> Kevin
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Tim Guan-tin Chien <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Nice! Is this documented somewhere?
>>
>> Kevin Grandon <[email protected]> 於 2016年1月15日 星期五寫道:
>>
>>> We previously agreed to support upgrades over two versions at anytime.
>>> E.g., we could support 2.0 -> 2.2 in master, but any migration logic prior
>>> to 2.0 in master could be removed from the code.
>>>
>>> Since the latest branch is 2.5, if nothing has changed we should support
>>> upgrading from 2.1 -> 2.5, but anything <= 2.0 can be removed from the
>>> codebase.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Tim Guan-tin Chien
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> With the "pivot to connected devices" and the fact that v1.x devices
>>>> are fall out of partner support, do we still care about the
>>>> possibility of having these profiles being upgraded to v2.6 (current
>>>> master) *directly*?
>>>>
>>>> I am looking at, particularly, preferences saved in mozSettings.
>>>> Dropping those support will help us free up development time on
>>>> supporting future products, and also help us making booting the (even
>>>> brand new phones) faster*.
>>>>
>>>> * See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095034; we have
>>>> not exposed things like DB_VERSION to Gaia so Gaia System has too
>>>> check for *every* old keys *everytime* the System boots. At least it
>>>> would have to check a version flag set and we unfortunately have not
>>>> yet concentrate all the migration there **
>>>>
>>>> ** Like the badly-written keyboard layout migration
>>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1180607 which no longer
>>>> need to be checked for post 1.3 new phones.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tim
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>>
>>
>> --
>> (Apologies — sent from mobile)
>
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