Tails

#3 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-22 16:18:58

• Assignee deleted (sajolida)

#4 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-31 19:36:25

• Assignee set to sajolida
• Target version set to Tails_3.16
• Parent task set to Feature #16711

#5 Updated by sajolida 2019-08-10 17:05:07

• Parent task deleted (Feature #16711)

#6 Updated by sajolida 2019-08-10 17:05:21

• blocks Feature #16711: Core work 2019Q3 → 2019Q4: Technical writing added

#7 Updated by sajolida 2019-08-18 08:16:24

• Description updated
• Target version changed from Tails_3.16 to Tails_4.0

The next people we’ll rely on this heavily is for the release of 4.0.

#8 Updated by sajolida 2019-09-18 19:24:38

• related to Feature #16991: Cognitive walkthrough of automatic and manual upgrades added

#9 Updated by sajolida 2019-10-11 17:18:44

• Status changed from Confirmed to Needs Validation
• Assignee changed from sajolida to cbrownstein
• Feature Branch set to doc/10885-better-upgrade-doc

@cbrownstein: Hi! I’m in the middle of travel & holidays but this could be quite important to do before 4.0, so I’ll try to work on it incrementally and see how far we can go. I thought about notifying you each time I push something new to the branch, so you could review each bit even if I’m not done with the whole thing. Maybe you could tell me up to which commit you did each of your review.

I pushed doc/10885-better-upgrade-doc (at a8ac9eb582) today that merges /upgrade and /doc/upgrade and fixes a few smallish things.

#10 Updated by sajolida 2019-10-11 17:58:03

• related to Feature #17146: Redirect /doc/first_steps/upgrade/ to /doc/upgrade added

#11 Updated by sajolida 2019-10-11 18:04:32

• related to Feature #17151: Point Tails Upgrader to /doc/upgrade added

#12 Updated by cbrownstein 2019-10-11 20:27:26

• Status changed from Needs Validation to In Progress
• Assignee changed from cbrownstein to sajolida

Looks good!

#13 Updated by sajolida 2019-10-18 02:32:17

• Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
• Description updated
• Status changed from In Progress to Needs Validation
• Assignee changed from sajolida to cbrownstein

Thanks for the prompt review.

I had to rewrite a8ac9eb582 because it included wiki/src/news/celebrating_10_years_of_Tails.mdwn which is a draft for an upcoming blog post that I had locally. But then I merged 50322ef981, the rewritten a8ac9eb582 into master.

So make sure to reset your local branch when fetching again. If you don’t have any local change, you could do git reset --hard origin/doc/10885-better-upgrade-doc.

I also did more work to create different manual upgrade scenarios for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Seeing that upgrades are still a top complain from users I think that it’s worth it.

Doing manual upgrades from a regular OS might be:

• Faster to do download (eg. Torrent)
• Less intrusive
• Possible to do proactively

Even though it might be a bit less safe if the other OS is compromised.

Please review again at eef79fd46d. I won’t do more work on this branch.

#14 Updated by intrigeri 2019-10-21 11:46:09

• Target version changed from Tails_4.0 to Tails_4.1

#15 Updated by cbrownstein 2019-10-25 02:13:36

• Status changed from Needs Validation to In Progress
• Assignee changed from cbrownstein to sajolida

I pushed a single change to my branch. Otherwise looks good!

https://0xacab.org/cbrownstein/tails/commits/doc/10885-better-upgrade-doc

#16 Updated by sajolida 2019-10-28 15:15:15

• Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
• Assignee deleted (sajolida)

Merged, thanks!