Release criterion proposal: upgrade methods

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:59:40PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Yeah. I have one system where I run rawhide, and I leap releases for
> > everything else -- but, usually I accept that I'm going to reinstall. I
> > don't think Fedora (or Red Hat) have *ever* promised that an upgrade from
> > anything but the previous release will work.
> Richard pointed out that we actually do suggest (not promise, but...)
> this in the install guide. The example cited suggests it's fine to
> upgrade across like three releases. We probably ought to change that.

It'd be kind of awesome if we also *knew* each release if three or four
releases back is likely to work, even if the answer is "no".

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