Graphical Distribution Upgrades
Stephen Gallagher
sgallagh at redhat.com
Tue Apr 7 12:32:50 UTC 2015
On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 06:45 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Broken from the "Summary of Reddit thread".
> >
> > Fedora's lack of a graphical major-version updater comes up
> > constantly. I think it's probably time to start brainstorming how
> > to
> > solve it, with a stated intention of having things work for
> > upgrading
> > Fedora 23 -> Fedora 24 *at minimum* and an ideal situation of
> > having
> > Fedora 22 -> Fedora 23 upgrades work (with changes made during
> > Fedora
> > 22's stable lifecycle to support this).
> >
> > So to brainstorm, I'll start with a list (in no particular order)
> > of
> > things I think we want as goals (not necessary technical goals but
> > user experience goals) and then go into a few known technical
> > enhancements that need to be accomplished to get there. (Note:
> > many of
> > the experience goals may already be possible with some combination
> > of
> > GNOME Software and/or fedup, but they are included for
> > completeness).
> >
> > Much discussion welcome!
>
> One things to add to user experience is integration with Preupgrade
> Assistant. One can argue it's not for Workstation use case but for
> Server but one of the ideas was to support desktop upgrades aka when
> for example an IM client is no longer default, say hey, we have very
> new shining IM client and you can even migrate your history via...
>
> https://fedoraproject.org//wiki/Changes/Preupgrade_Assistant
>
> Jaroslav
Well, the user experience goals should express a need from the users,
not an implication of a specific technology. So perhaps something like:
* When an upgrade will require or recommend a migration from one
piece of software to another, the user should be presented with a
choice or a notice (whichever is appropriate to the situation).
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