Proposed F19 Feature: PreUpgrade Assistant

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 01/29/2013 04:37 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> = Features/PreUpgrade Assistant =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade_Assistant
>
> Feature owner(s): Nils Philippsen <nils at redhat.com>, Phil Knirsch
> <pknirsch at redhat.com>
>
> The PreUgrade assistant is a tool to help people upgrade from one release to
> another and be sure to track important manual configuration changes they
> performed.
>
> == Detailed description ==
> The idea behind the The PreUpgrade assistant came from the notion that even
> during the rather short release cycles in Fedora occasionally there are
> changes that are incompatible between releases and which are either hard or
> nearly impossible to cover during a standard package upgrade. Examples would
> be major version upgrades of applications or services that change configuration
> file syntax or on-disk date format changes.
>
> The assistant works by analyzing the source system and will generate a report
> which will offer information and configuration files for typically changed
> settings and services. It offers a plugin architecture where component or
> functional area owners can contribute and write their on plugins in python
> that can generate additional information for the report.
> _______________________________________________

An tool that presents the release notes to the enduser is it not simpler 
to just ship it as an pdf or something?

JBG