Fedora 21 Beta Release Criteria sgallagh draft

Upgrade requirements

For each one of the release-blocking package sets, it must be possible to successfully complete an upgrade from a fully updated installation of the previous stable Fedora release with that package set installed.

Release-blocking package sets

The release-blocking package sets are the minimal set, and the sets for each one of the release-blocking desktops.

Recommended upgrade mechanisms

This criterion applies to the recommended upgrade mechanisms only.

Upgraded system requirements

The upgraded system must meet all release criteria.

References

• Initial upgrade criterion was part of initial Fedora 13 criteria revision
• Adjusted to require upgraded system to work 2011-03-28
• Adjusted to refer to 'officially supported upgrade mechanisms' rather than specifying particular methods: proposed 2012-09-24, implemented 2012-10-03
• Wording slightly re-organized as part of the major Fedora 19 criteria revision
• Interpreted to require all fedup methods to work (or at least both repository and ISO file) in 2013-12-02 blocker review meeting
• Test cases:
  • QA:Testcase_upgrade_fedup_cli_previous_desktop
  • QA:Testcase_upgrade_fedup_cli_previous_kde
  • QA:Testcase_upgrade_fedup_cli_previous_minimal
  • QA:Testcase_upgrade_fedup_cli_previous_desktop_encrypted