Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 11/10/2012 12:12 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
>> >It's not one of our supported upgrade mechanisms, and there appears to
>> >be no chance of that changing.
> That's the whole problem. Why is our most reliable upgrade mechanism not
> "supported"?
>

For the first QA got completely bypass in that decision if we should 
"officially support" upgrades in the first place but left with cleaning 
up that mess ( its no way we could have covered every package installed 
combination in the project ) when that pandora box was open, we actual 
have testers that do yum upgrades and report any mistakes and it's 
thanks to them that it works as smooth as it does and this release cycle 
we even discussed adjusted the criteria to cover either or ( yum 
upgrade/preupgrade or fedup ).

The fact remains however that we cant "properly" support it until we 
default to btrfs and implement the ability for our userbase to fall back 
to an snapshot that was taken before upgrade for our users to fallback 
on encase shit hits the fan. ( despite whom ever made that decision to 
official support it )

I however neither upgrade nor recommend upgrades because I have better 
things to do with my time than spending hours cleaning up after the 
upgrades and rather choose to have my /home on separated partitions and 
do fresh install and reuse it once I have fixed Gnome not being able to 
properly handle upgrades within Gnome itself for my user account ( which 
takes half an hour hour tops to fix )

JBG