Release criterion proposal: upgrade methods

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 08:50 -0600, Tim Flink wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:47:16 +0200
> drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Would we OK with shipping beta with only yum upgrades working? While
> > > it's not currently a 'recommended' method for upgrades right now as
> > > far as I know, that could certainly change.
> > 
> > No that way the upgrade method used by most users (which is even new
> > code this time) will get even less testing.
> 
> Yeah, I'm pretty much in agreement with you here. Regardless of which
> method is used by most users, I'm wary of leaving a new upgrade method
> for final instead of getting most of the bugs out in beta even if that
> does mean that we slip a bit.
> 
> I'm not sure how to get around this risk unless we require 'all' to
> work for beta or pretend that we control which upgrade methods are
> 'recommended'. Any suggestions?

I don't see this as a practical problem. There is no danger that we're
somehow going to overturn years of Fedora history and declare between
now and F18 GA that yum is a 'recommended upgrade method'.
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