Re: Is the Cloud network installer really a 'release blocking image'?

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>> > So the 'canonical' list of release blocking images:
>> >
>> >
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/ReleaseBlocking/Fedora24
>> >
>> >
>> > has a 'yes' for the Cloud x86_64 network install image.
>> >
>> > This seems suspicious to me. Who does network installs of the Cloud
>> > tree? Why would you want to do that? Why would it be a release-blocking
>> > deliverable?
>
>> Well I believe it's what's used to then install the qemu cloud and docker
>> images so if it fails then all that use it in the creation process would
>> fail which would make it release blocking due to dependency chains wouldn't
>> it?
>
> That's an implementation detail. The 'release blocking images' list is
> (or ought to be) a higher level list: it's the images that *in and of
> themselves* we require to be present and meeting the various release
> criteria for a release to be shippable. In other words, I don't think
> the 'release blocking image' list should be transitive, that doesn't
> help anything. It just means we keep blocking on the netinst for no
> reason if the way we build the images we actually care about changes.

I completely agree with you, I wasn't trying to justify it being on
the release blocking list, but rather explain how it might have got on
the list.

Peter
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