[development] Incremental upgrades [WAS: Drupal 5.2 and 4.7.7 released]

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Cog Rusty <cog.rusty at gmail.com>:

> On 7/26/07, Neil Drumm <drumm at delocalizedham.com> wrote:
>> Killes and I have released Drupal 5.2 and 4.7.7. These are bugfix and
>> security releases; upgrading is strongly recommended.
>>
>> Further details are at http://drupal.org/drupal-5.2
>
>
> This seems a good place for a clarification. (I would post it in
> "support" but then it would probably be answered by someone like
> myself)
>
> In the 5.2+4.7.7 announcement, in the "Upgrades" section, it says:
> "For the most trouble-free transition from an existing installation,
> it is recommended that you first upgrade to Drupal 4.7.6 or Drupal
> 5.1."
>
> In the 5.1+4.7.6 announcement, it was::
> "For the most trouble-free transition from an existing installation,
> it is recommended that you first upgrade to Drupal 4.7.5 or Drupal
> 5.0."
>
> What is the purpose of this? (Not recommending to go straight to 5.1
> when it was released, but recommending it now that 5.2 has been
> released.) Is it a safety valve in case something upgrade-related has
> been overlooked in the new release?
>
> Or does it mean that one has to follow the chain and trace back all
> the minor releases one by one?
>

Good questions, I would also like to ask why upgrade.php should not 
handle a straight 4.x to 5.2?  Isn't it designed to prevent the need to 
do incremental upgrades so that all of the needed upgrades are self 
contained?

Earnie