On Thu 31 Jul 2008 at 09:48PM, Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> I'm a little worried generally about the user experience of image-
> update too.
>
> What we have now essentially allows the average user to upgrade their
> entire image to a non-milestone build. By non-milestone build, I mean
> any of the builds leading up to the official 2008.11 release.
>
...
> What we
> need, in my mind, both with pkg(1) and packagemanager(1) is some
> acknowledgement that they're updating to something that hasn't had a
> lot of testing, is currently in development and may have a lot of
> instabilities.
Glynn,
By acknowledgement I assume you mean a user interaction. Can you
clarify the urgency of the need for such a message? Is this a "nice to
have" or do you believe it should be a stopper for BTS? At present,
no such work has been defined.
> I think we need a better story there for how we want to
> migrate people through the development builds, versus migrating people
> from milestone release to milestone release.
I think that's coming, at least in part, for November.
-dp
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