Re: Fedora on Macs, removing the release criterion

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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 07:09:39PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> It's also worth noting that there's a possible scenario where we could
> completely nerf the OS X install here. It's a fairly *unlikely*
> scenario - the user would have to manually disable journalling on the
> macOS partition - but it is *possible*. For instance, they may have
> disabled it so they could write to the partition in Linux, for some
> reason, and then forgotten to re-enable it. So this bug, at least in
> that case, can be even worse than just 'Fedora doesn't boot'. It can be
> 'the Fedora installer ate my OS X kernel'.

Yeah -- that's what pushed me over the edge on this.

That and I'm not *super* keen on the practice of removing blocker
criteria whenever we hit them....

> I don't really *like* the thing where we suddenly decide at the end of
> the release cycle that we don't like a criterion that *just happens* to
> be standing in the way of release after all, and magically say it's not
> a criterion any more. It's crappy process. But we have done it before

Yeah, that :)



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