Hello everybody, CCing Michael, as he knows the dist-ugprade process best. :-)
Am Dienstag, den 31.10.2006, 23:01 -0500 schrieb Daniel T. Chen: > Jordan Mantha wrote: > > Anything else we should take care of soonish? I'd like MOTU to get > > feisty with Feisty and rock the user community with the most stable, > > up-to-date, and usable Universe yet. Starting the development cycle > > right will help a lot, IMO. > > Reading Scott's comments[0] regarding dist-upgrading led me to revisit > something we've been neglecting: We should plan a testing scheme for > universe dist-upgrades. Granted we're already doing this from revision > to revision, but William's and Michael's efforts in Edgy have reiterated > just how imperative it is that we strive for smooth dist-upgrades. For > Feisty, although our primary upgrade path will be Edgy->Feisty, there's > no reason we shouldn't at least attempt Dapper->Feisty, too. > > Yes, I'm insane[1]. > > However, if Dapper is to be recognized as a serious LTS release, we > really need to put the manpower behind it. Count me in for assisting > said effort. > > > [0] http://www.netsplit.com/blog/articles/2006/10/30/automatix-and-upgrading > [1] http://www.frog.co.nz/images2/toadily-insane.jpg I talked to Michael about dist-upgrade testing and we had some ideas involving popcon data in simulating release upgrades. https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/auto-dist-upgrade-testing/ https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/dist-upgrader-fixes It'd be really cool to see people jump in there and get release upgrades tested early in the game so we can get packages fixed before release. Have a nice day, Daniel
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