On 8 April 2015 at 08:52, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
if developers are the primary user group, is it unreasonable to expect
that they will use a shell once or twice per year to perform the upgrades?
That's a big "if", isn't it? Do we have any real figures about who our users are, or plans to find out? I digress, but it seems like a short survey of the kind Stack Overflow did (and Matthew Miller mentioned in another thread) might be a good way to learn more about our users, especially if it's triggered during initial set-up or post-upgrade.
It may be fair to say that developers are our primary target user group, in which case I agree that expecting them to use a shell to upgrade is fine (It's not like "sudo fedup --network 22" is a complicated command). Still, notifying the user that there's a new major version available to upgrade to is worthwhile. There's an argument that targeting developers is a bit of a cop-out though; assuming some technical expertise on behalf of our users could be an excuse not to make stuff as user-friendly as it might be.
It may be fair to say that developers are our primary target user group, in which case I agree that expecting them to use a shell to upgrade is fine (It's not like "sudo fedup --network 22" is a complicated command). Still, notifying the user that there's a new major version available to upgrade to is worthwhile. There's an argument that targeting developers is a bit of a cop-out though; assuming some technical expertise on behalf of our users could be an excuse not to make stuff as user-friendly as it might be.
I've actually installed Fedora for a couple of my family members because I think GNOME Shell provides a more user-friendly UI than many alternatives, and Fedora ships a great GNOME Shell set-up. As Fedora users they're in a very small minority I'm sure, but they'd certainly benefit from a graphical upgrade process (or at least, I would in that I'd not need to do the upgrades for them).
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