Upgrading to Edgy Eft

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> See, another reason for reading the relevant mailing lists as an edgy
> user :) The schedule was announced on ubuntu-devel.

Except that _isn't_ where such an announcement belongs.  People who don't
know better are seeing mention of edgy and trying it.  Announcements
_should_ be made on the announcement list, and probably here, where people
_other_ than developers will read them.

> Note that until UpstreamVersionFreeze on July 13, packages will be
> merged in. This will include a newer gcc
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyToolchainRoadmap) Serious breakage is
> guaranteed to happen.

Actually, it isn't.  The schedule doesn't even suggest it.  You and I (and
anybody reading this thread) know it will - but there are no guarantees. 
For heaven's sake, the section up to the "Upstream Freeze" is color-coded
green!  That says "full steam ahead" to me.

> In the event of serious but expected breakage, edgy users should be
> aware of what's going on - nobody is helped by a hundred duplicate bug
> reports for a known issue.

True.
-- 
derek