On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 13:26 -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > > I feel that for something as important as system upgrade, we should provide a > > better level of quality and assurance for upgrading across 2 releases. > > Currently we have no criterion and testing it is just an afterthought, not > > even tracked anywhere. I'd like to amend the existing criterion to include > > N-2 release as well, i.e.: > > > > "For each one of the release-blocking package sets, it must be possible to > > successfully complete an upgrade from a fully updated installation of any of > > the two previous stable Fedora releases with that package set installed." > > (language corrections very welcome) > > During QA meeting, people were generally in favor of this idea. I was > asked to check with Will Woods, system-upgrade maintainer. I did > that, and he has no objections. He says it's no extra work for him > and that the most work is needed from package maintainers when > designing dependencies, scriptlets, etc. This is something to > consider as well, but I think we implicitly want all packages to be > upgradable forward (even when skipping a release). And I don't > remember any issues with this lately. > > Does someone have some additional concerns about this? Nope - as I said in the meeting, if tools folks are OK, so am I. It may be worth floating on devel@, though, to see if any packagers are concerned about maintaining upgradability on that level. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
