Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-08-14)

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 08/15/2013 09:40 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
>> I want increased participation in the creation of Fedora, which
>> is a product with a defined set of software shipped as default.
>> I'm also happy with people working to make it practical to use
>> Fedora as the basis for derived products (such as the spins and
>> remixes), providing that they don't compromise the product that
>> we're producing.
> 
> I feel that people mostly say "fedora is for testing". It is
> somewhat supported by responses to upgrade problems to a new
> version which invariable are along the lines of "we don't support
> that upgrade path/method".
> 
> We can't tell people to re-install from scratch every 6 months.
> What we need is an "apt-get dist-upgrade" equivalent.
> 


I think your information is out of date. For the last two releases,
we've had the excellent 'fedup' tool that performs a supported
distribution upgrade, similar (but better than) 'apt-get
dist-upgrade'. I strongly suggest taking a look.

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