Re: Blocking on user switching: redux

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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 2:14 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi folks!
>
> So, during Fedora 32 Final blocker review, a bug relating to "user
> switching" came up for review:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1817708
>
> I dug into the question of whether we have tended to consider the "log
> in / log out / shut down / reboot" criterion as covering user
> switching, and found that this issue is actually kinda outstanding and
> unresolved for a long time.
>
> Back in January 2015, we kinda provisionally decided that we *did* want
> to block on user switching bugs, by accepting this one as a blocker
> during a review meeting:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184933
>
> kparal was detailed to propose clearly adding it to the criteria, and
> he duly drafted up a change and mailed it to the relevant lists -
> test@, kde@ and desktop@:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2015-January/124811.html
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2015-January/014175.html
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2015-January/011558.html
>
> However, here things foundered a bit because there was some opposition
> to the idea. The discussion is spread across the three lists, but my
> reading is broadly that there were distinct camps in favour of and
> against blocking on user switching bugs. Prominent "pro-blocking" folks
> were Michael Catanzaro and Kevin Kofler. Prominent "anti-blocking"
> folks were Matthias Clasen, Rex Dieter and Josh Boyer. Obviously that's
> a particularly awkward split because we have pro- and anti- folks on
> both the desktop and KDE teams.
>
> The discussion was pretty active, but in the end it sort of petered out
> without any definite conclusion being reached. The draft changes Kamil
> proposed were never made, and the criterion remained as it was before.
>
> For the purposes of our specific F32 blocker proposal we decided to
> adopt the principle that, since there was a discussion that clearly did
> not reach a consensus that user switching *should* be release-blocking,
> we could not really treat it as such, and thus we rejected the bug as a
> blocker. But I figured it would probably be a good idea to bring the
> topic up again and try to come to a definite conclusion this time.
>
> So, once again: do we think it makes sense to consider desktop user
> switching - that is, switching between multiple active desktop sessions
> for different users, without logging out and in - as release-blocking?
> Has anyone who was active in the previous discussion changed their mind
> on this?
>
> I suppose one question that could potentially arise is whether we could
> treat it as release-blocking for GNOME but not for KDE, or vice versa.
> In general I think it's a good goal to try and keep our standards
> similar across our release-blocking desktops, but I do think we could
> at least consider that, if the discussion seemed to be going in that
> direction.

Unfortunately I missed the discussion because of $DAYJOB stuff...

>From my perspective in Workstation WG and member of KDE SIG, I would
say that we should consider this release blocking. This is a somewhat
common use-case on family/shared computers that we should have
working.

(I am a tiny bit biased, I've set up several Fedora systems where this
feature has been used heavily...)




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