On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:37 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 18:12 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > [tone note: not a sarcastic question...] > > > > What are "critical functions of the system"? > > > > I'd say access to one's filesystem is quite critical. :) > > > > Either way things go... thanks! > > Outside the less popular cases of nfs mounted / or /home, you do not > need access to NFS mounted filesystems in order to login and update your > system. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages_Proposal speaks to > some of what we consider the critical path. Also, from your description, this affects the case where the *server* is running F12 alpha and clients are running something older. This definitely doesn't fit into the alpha criteria :) the criteria we mostly use to evaluate alpha blockers are the same as the criteria on which the critical path proposal is based: bugs which stop you being able to boot the system and update it graphically are blockers. So if you can't boot the system, can't start X, can't do any input, or networking is broken - those are potentially critical issues (though they may not count if they only affect some specific piece of hardware). There's wiggle room, obviously - this is something it's hard to write down really definitively - but I think most of QA / releng would agree that an issue which affects the use of the system as an NFS server won't block the alpha release. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
