On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> 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(a)fedoraproject.org> 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