Release criterion proposal: upgrade methods

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:24:58PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> >It'd be kind of awesome if we also *knew* each release if three or four
> >releases back is likely to work, even if the answer is "no".
> Personally I think we should limit our "support" not go further back
> then the release we are about to eol so we would support F16 being
> upgrade to F18 but not F15 being upgraded to F18.

We want to encourage people to get off those old releases without abandoning
Fedora. It's reasonable to say we can't *support* all those upgrade
scenarios, but we should generally be predisposed to having them working.

If we chase all the users away, the whole excercise becomes rather
pointless.


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