On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 06:45 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > Broken from the "Summary of Reddit thread". > > > > Fedora's lack of a graphical major-version updater comes up > > constantly. I think it's probably time to start brainstorming how > > to > > solve it, with a stated intention of having things work for > > upgrading > > Fedora 23 -> Fedora 24 *at minimum* and an ideal situation of > > having > > Fedora 22 -> Fedora 23 upgrades work (with changes made during > > Fedora > > 22's stable lifecycle to support this). > > > > So to brainstorm, I'll start with a list (in no particular order) > > of > > things I think we want as goals (not necessary technical goals but > > user experience goals) and then go into a few known technical > > enhancements that need to be accomplished to get there. (Note: > > many of > > the experience goals may already be possible with some combination > > of > > GNOME Software and/or fedup, but they are included for > > completeness). > > > > Much discussion welcome! > > One things to add to user experience is integration with Preupgrade > Assistant. One can argue it's not for Workstation use case but for > Server but one of the ideas was to support desktop upgrades aka when > for example an IM client is no longer default, say hey, we have very > new shining IM client and you can even migrate your history via... > > https://fedoraproject.org//wiki/Changes/Preupgrade_Assistant > > Jaroslav Well, the user experience goals should express a need from the users, not an implication of a specific technology. So perhaps something like: * When an upgrade will require or recommend a migration from one piece of software to another, the user should be presented with a choice or a notice (whichever is appropriate to the situation).
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