Re: [Tails-dev] incremental upgrades: phase one almost done,…

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Assumpte: Re: [Tails-dev] incremental upgrades: phase one almost done, release plan
18/11/12 11:42, intrigeri wrote:
>> I know a progress bar is planned (I looked around in the ticket),
>> but due to my experience above I think it's an absolute must that
>> it's implemented before we announce this feature publicly.
>
> I now agree it's a must before this feature is enabled by default.
>
> However, I think we should not let the lack of a progress bar prevent
> us from publicly asking bold users to try incremental upgrades.
> There are many more possible bugs that I'd like to see them discover
> by running this code in various situations. Obvious, such a public
> call for testing would have to list know issues, such as the lack of
> progress report during the download phase. Do we agree on this?


I completely agree. I was talking about the future public announcement
of *recommending* the use of incremental updates.

> Practically speaking, I'd like to prepare and publish the needed files
> for the 0.14->0.15~rc1 incremental update, and publish a dedicated
> call for testing in our news section. Or just add instructions to the
> existing 0.15~rc1 call for testing, but I doubt it would be read by
> many people if done this late. How does this sound?


I think it's still worthwhile.

Cheers!