[Bug 1875522] Re: suggest removing -d requirement to upgrade to new releases

[Walter Lapchynski]

I agree with the idea that the machinery should offer a new release only
when we really consider it stable, which we define as having a point
release. In other words, if a user does nothing and they're on 18.04,
they don't get nagged to upgrade until 20.04.1.

On the other hand, I think that when a user *requests* a release, either
through `do-release-upgrade` or through the GUI, it would make a lot
more sense to provide the most recent *available* release for the track
(normal v. lts) they're on. In other words, if they're on 18.04 or 19.10
and they look for a new release, they should get 20.04, even if 20.04.1
isn't out yet. To do anything different is like saying there's no new
release and with all the news saying the new release is out, this is
really confusing and makes for a lot of annoying support requests.

Going back to my original note, I think that for folks on the normal
track, they should get nagged to upgrade before the point release.
They're already not looking for LTS capability, so why should we try to
provide it?

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Title:
  suggest removing -d requirement to upgrade to new releases

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hello, I'd like to suggest that the do-release-upgrade -d command line
  parameter should behave differently than it does.

  At the moment, we aren't promoting focal upgrades to our existing
  bionic and eoan users. This makes sense.

  However, we have many enthusiast users who would like to upgrade, and
  would probably be a good position to help us find and fix bugs in the
  upgrade process.

  These enthusiasts are rightly concerned that do-release-upgrade -d
  will upgrade them to gorilla. They're also wondering if 20.04 is
  actually released, etc.

  The conversations around this point on irc are endless and often.

  So: I'd like to propose that -d is used to upgrade to the devel
  release. And in the weeks or months before we change the meta-release
  files to encourage upgrades to the next release, we allow people to
  upgrade to the next release without resorting to scary-sounding
  command line options.

  Thanks

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