Re: Release criteria proposal: clarify upgrade requirements

[Kamil Paral]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org
>  wrote: 
>  Hi folks!
>
>  So at the most recent blocker review meeting, we discussed the intent
>  of the release criteria as regards upgrades. At present we have one
>  criterion, at Beta:
>
>  "For each one of the release-blocking package sets, it must be possible
>  to successfully complete a direct upgrade from fully updated
>  installations of the last two stable Fedora releases with that package
>  set installed."
>
>  Now my *intent* in writing this was that it should cover *only* out-of-
>  the-box installs of the release-blocking package sets; nothing beyond
>  out-of-the-box functionality was supposed to be covered.
>
>  However, there seemed to be strong agreement that failure of a release-
>  blocking Server role to upgrade correctly should block the release. 

I'm not sure if you counted my response at the meeting as "agreement", but
I was simply not understanding the distinction between a default install
and a post-install configured server role. (I hope I understand it properly
now.)


>  At
>  least in my reading (and I wrote it!) the criterion doesn't really
>  cover that.
>
>  So I'm proposing changes to both make the meaning of the existing
>  criterion more clear, and explicitly cover the thing we agreed should
>  be covered.
>
>  1) Change the text of the existing criterion to read:
>
>  "For each one of the release-blocking package sets, it must be possible
>  to successfully complete a direct upgrade from a fully updated, clean
>  default installation of each of the last two stable Fedora releases
>  with that package set installed."
>  
Sounds reasonable.


>  2) Add a new criterion to the Beta 'Server Product requirements'
>  section, titled "Server upgrade requirements", text:
>
>  "For each Featured Server Role, it must be possible to successfully
>  complete a direct upgrade from a fully updated installation of each of
>  the last two stable Fedora Server releases with that Server Role
>  deployed. The upgraded system must meet all relevant release criteria,
>  including criteria relating to functionality of the Server Role."
>  
Should be decided by Server SIG, but the wording seems fine to me.