On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2016-11-17 at 12:18 -0800, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Adam Williamson >> <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > You'll notice we don't explicitly specify *how* you should do this. >> > That is, >> > if you're currently running Fedora 23, and you want to upgrade to >> > Fedora 25 >> > next week, are you supposed to: >> > >> > i) Upgrade to Fedora 24 first, then from Fedora 24 to Fedora 25 >> > ii) Upgrade directly to Fedora 25 >> >> If there are no concerns or impediments from gnome-software, et al, >> as >> well as QA, then I'd say both should be equally supported. Some may >> want to go to 24 and later to 25, others intentionally skip releases >> and will want to go from 23 to 25. Both are valid use cases. Both >> ought to work short of technical or resource limitations. So I'd >> figure out those, and then set the policy or recommendation to match >> that. > > gnome-software is currently written quite specifically to offer only > *one* upgrade target at a time. Changing that would be a lot more work > than adjusting the logic used to choose which to offer. > > Of course, that doesn't mean we can't say our *distribution level* > policy is that either is equally recommended. We'd then have to make a > separate decision about which one GNOME Software should offer, so long > as it can't offer both. Ahh, I missed that it can't offer both and let the user choose. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
