On 12/19/06, Christopher Stone <chris.stone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh it may work, but the probability of it working 100% correctly diminishes pretty dramatically I would assume. Personally I think it is a bad idea and we should always encourage people to upgrade one distro release at a time.
There is a whole spectrum of options inside the word encourage. And surely there are a number of ways to actively encourage people to upgrade on each available release..without actively discouraging people who feel the need to holdback. I only personally encourage people to do fresh installs, but people aren't always prepared for that. Making it possible to skip a release is not necessarily encouraging people do it. People already are waiting to skip a release, for their own reasons, regardless of the current update support policy. Similarly there are nutjobs out there who try to skip two releases or more. I don't think shifting the support lifetimes is going to re-classify who is and who is not a nutjob. Hopefully the leadership in the new fedora-testing initiative will have some bright ideas on how to better organize regression testing for upgrades so that upgrades can be percieved as a more reliable process than it currently is, even from release to release without skipping. -jef -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
