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

[Steve Langasek]

The release notes have been fixed to document the need for -d until the
point release.

I categorically disagree that we should message an LTS-to-LTS upgrade,
prior to the first point release, as anything other than "development".
During each LTS cycle, we are routinely fixing critical upgrade bugs up
until the point release, and no one who is not prepared to deal with
those on the same level as a user installing or upgrading to a beta
release of Ubuntu should be doing that LTS upgrade at that time.

> 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?

That is already the case.  This bug only affects LTS-to-LTS upgrades.

I'm closing this bug as Opinion, as I don't see that there is any clear
path to addressing the request while satisfying the constraint that we
don't want casual users who are not prepared to deal with critical
upgrade bugs without overwhelming our support capacity to be doing LTS-
LTS upgrades before .1.


** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Groovy)
       Status: Confirmed => Opinion

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

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Groovy:
  Opinion

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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