On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 13:35 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 16:20 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >From my perspective, the two main avenues to a new Fedora release are
> the live installer and preupgrade, and those two should get all the
> attention they can get.
I'd say the main problem with preupgrade testing is that, given the
fairly limited resources QA has, it's rather hard for us to recreate the
infinite configurations people in the real world will try to run
preupgrade on. It's inherently a nightmare of complexity. We can
certainly try and do _better_ testing than we currently do, though.
Sure you can't hope to test a full matrix, but that is just as much the
case for anaconda... yet the anaconda test matrix looks a lot more
complete than the upgrade one. Anyway, I don't want to make it sound
like the upgrade situation is mainly a QA problem - it is
first-and-foremost a maintainership problem; we must get out of the
situation that one of the two main avenues to the next release is wwoods
weekend project - of course, the other one being the unloved stepchild
of the installer team is not exactly perfect either...