Goals for Fedora Workstation upgrades

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:58:30PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Um... except the cases where the new application keeps it's own
> directory of caches and such.  Think of evolution vs. thunderbird.
> I'd be really upset if an upgrade resulted in me going to start my
> email and having to either a) redownload all the headers and messages
> into a new cache or b) dig around for an app in the software center
> that I was perfectly happy using.

The example Owen gave was a character picker. Maybe there's a distinction
to be made between apps which keep data and (meaningful) preferences, and
ones that are just little utilities?


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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader