Release criterion proposal: upgrade methods

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 08:15 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 04:06:23PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > You could certainly make the case, yeah. Given that our excuse for
> > people who say 'you have to upgrade every six months' is to say 'no you
> > don't, because we support releases for 12, you can just upgrade every
> > second release!', so we kinda do tell people that.
> 
> Yeah. I have one system where I run rawhide, and I leap releases for
> everything else -- but, usually I accept that I'm going to reinstall. I
> don't think Fedora (or Red Hat) have *ever* promised that an upgrade from
> anything but the previous release will work.

Richard pointed out that we actually do suggest (not promise, but...)
this in the install guide. The example cited suggests it's fine to
upgrade across like three releases. We probably ought to change that.
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