-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/27/2014 02:46 PM, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 10:28 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> Hi, folks! We did the release blocker bug review meeting today, >> and one of the bugs that came up for discussion was this one: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1134524 >> >> The question of whether this bug is a release blocker comes down >> pretty clearly to the status of the Workstation network install >> image. That is, the image is clearly busted, so if we care about >> that image, we should consider the bug a release blocker. > > I don't think the question is whether we care about the image - I > think the question is whether we make the image available! > > My strong opinions here are restricted to three things: > > 1) If made available, the netinst image must work. Otherwise, > we're blaming the user for our bugs. > > 2) What you get going through either path should be identical; > installing from the network shouldn't put you into a > choose-your-own-adventure path of selecting desktops and optional > server components. > > This may be more aspirational for F21 than something we can achieve > this cycle. > > 3) The netinst image should not look like an equal alternative to > the "live" image (which I think is a misnomer) in the web > presentation. Making it seem you need to decide whether you want to > try out Fedora first or just install it is deceptive; generally, > we want people to just go ahead and get the full image. > > I don't have strong opinions about whether we make the netinst > image available at all. My vague feeling is that yes, it should be > available, because it's more similar to a kickstarted installation > of the workstation, which is probably useful have working and > tested to give identical results to the live image installation. > The other thing here is that without a netinstall, it becomes very difficult for a site to do multiple deployments easily. I think we want people to be able to write a PXE-boot installer for Workstation and relying on the live ISO might be an impediment to that. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlP+R7IACgkQeiVVYja6o6PvBACfYk+GKDEZtLK4YF5rYzSTfIDh mUQAnAgu9cFbK3XElvw5fu1Ki5gmYRmd =JQNU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
