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

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 16 August 2013 19:41, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 08/15/2013 03:55 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
> What's alarming with the decision to officially support upgrades that it
> was done without consulting the QA community, which are the ones that have
> to come up with the test cases,make the necessary changes to the release
> criteria, essentially have to do all the work and above all test it.
>
>
I am going to have to reverse the question. While I was helping out when I
could from Red Hat 7 -> Fedora 7, QA always tested upgrades. The basic
tests were:

1) Install last release, test an upgrade from that to latest. Report what
broke.
2) Install release-2, test an upgrade from that to latest. Report what
broke.
3) Install last release, rpm -Uvh (before yum and yum update afterwords),
test an upgrade to latest. See what broke.
4) Install release-2....

If the install was "important" for some reason (in the RHL days that would
have been something like RHL-5.2, RHL-6.2, RHL-7.3 and before core went
away Fedora Core 6). you would do a chain upgrade (RHL-2.1 -> whatever now
is.) and document what was broken. So sometime after Fedora 7.

Support of upgrades was basically that we knew it worked if you did this
and it might work if you did that, and it probably won't work outside of
that. So my guess is that sometime after F7 (maybe when upgrade was no
longer a path in Anaconda?) it was considered not supported anymore?


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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