On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/06/2015 10:56 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> 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). > > Is this really a good use of development resources? I mean, really—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 might surprise you but no; there are developers who aren't really used to a terminal and are uncomfortable using it "that's like DOS". Those coming from the Windows side ... the (developer) world does not consists of UNIX (Linux + OS X) users but the vast majority is using Windows. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
