On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 12:49 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Based on today's blocker review meeting discussion, and this email > thread [1] I'd like to propose making only Fedora Media Writer the > *officially supported* USB installation media creation tool, starting > with Fedora 26. > > The practical implication of "officially support" means bugs for which > we'd block the release. It doesn't make sense to block the release if > myriad tools all don't succeed. We only really need one to work, and > Fedora Media Writer is the cross platform tool we're investing in long > term. > > The main idea of the proposal is to no longer block the release when > Fedora Media Writer is working, but some other possibly useful ways of > creating media aren't working. It doesn't mean those tools won't be > fixed, or would be removed from the distribution, just means we're not > holding up release for those alternative tools. > > Comments? There is currently no real way to use FMW on non-Fedora Linux distributions that don't a) support Flatpak and b) have an appropriate Flatpak runtime for running FMW on (beyond compiling it yourself, I guess). If we do not 'support' livecd-iso-to-disk any more, we no longer support: 1) persistent storage (via overlays) 2) non-destructive write -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
