/usrmove?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Feb 8 14:11:08 UTC 2012


Once upon a time, Stijn Hoop <stijn at sandcat.nl> said:
> On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:37:33 +0100
> Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> > Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > Note that this has not actually been implemented in anaconda yet,
> > > so if you do an anaconda upgrade at this time, it will explode
> > > horribly. The bug requesting this support be added to anaconda is
> > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787893 .
> > 
> > It's totally unacceptable that this "feature" has been merged in this 
> > incomplete state. Working upgrades should have been a prerequisite
> > for merging it! Anaconda upgrades are even part of our release
>                                                          ^^^^^^^
> > criteria! This affects both the DVD upgrades and preupgrade, which
> > are the 2 upgrade methods Fedora claims to support.
> 
> I did not see a release yet, where did you find it?

He said "release criteria".  Included in that is the Feature Freeze
(which was yesterday for F17), which includes:

  Once the Feature Freeze milestone is reached, all new features for the
  release should be:
  - substantially complete and in a testable state

If the anaconda support for UsrMove is not merged (and maybe not even
written?), then why was an untestable and incomplete feature merged?
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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