Release criterion proposal: upgrade methods

[drago01]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Tim Flink <tflink at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:47:16 +0200
> drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Would we OK with shipping beta with only yum upgrades working? While
>> > it's not currently a 'recommended' method for upgrades right now as
>> > far as I know, that could certainly change.
>>
>> No that way the upgrade method used by most users (which is even new
>> code this time) will get even less testing.
>
> Yeah, I'm pretty much in agreement with you here. Regardless of which
> method is used by most users, I'm wary of leaving a new upgrade method
> for final instead of getting most of the bugs out in beta even if that
> does mean that we slip a bit.
>
> I'm not sure how to get around this risk unless we require 'all' to
> work for beta or pretend that we control which upgrade methods are
> 'recommended'. Any suggestions?

Simply require all to work by beta time. I see no benefit from the
beta / final distinction here.