= Proposed Self Contained: Preupgrade Assistant =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Preupgrade_Assistant
Change owner(s): Petr Hracek <phracek(a)redhat.com>
The Preugrade Assistant is a tool to help people upgrade from one release to
another and be sure to track important manual configuration changes they
performed.
== Detailed Description ==
The idea behind the The Preupgrade Assistant came from the notion that even
during the rather short release cycles in Fedora occasionally there are
changes that are incompatible between releases and which are either hard or
nearly impossible to cover during a standard package upgrade. Examples would
be major version upgrades of applications or services that change configuration
file syntax or on-disk date format changes.
The Preupgrade Assistant works by analyzing the source system and will
generate a report which will offer information and configuration files for
typically changed settings and services. It offers a plugin architecture where
component or functional area owners can contribute and write their on plugins
in python, bash or perl that can generate additional information for the
report.
== Scope ==
The Preupgrade Assistant is a standalone tool that doesn't affect any other
component in the system. The scope for Fedora 22 is to provide the basic
framework and initial plugins for general use. Additional component or
functional area plugins rely on component owners to actively help working on
them.
* Proposal owners: Provide the basic framework and initial plugins for general
use
* Other developers: Provide additional component or functional area plugins
(optional)
* Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)