Re: Fedora on Macs, removing the release criterion

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On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2016-11-17 07:43 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>
>> 2. The Fedora QA group has 1 mac mini which is very old and is only
>> used for total install and not dual boot. It would not have found this
>> issue. The Fedora QA group also has no one using Mac hardware day to
>> day.
>
>
> This bit isn't quite true. We found the bug *on* that Mac Mini. I'm worried
> it's not likely to find *other* bugs that people are likely to encounter on
> the systems they actually want to run Fedora on (newer laptops), but it did
> find this one.
>
> The problem is that we didn't get around to running the test until the day
> before the go/no-go. There's a lot of stuff to test, and anything which only
> one person is likely to test is a risk. Frankly speaking, given how humans
> work, things that involve digging some piece of hardware you never touch out
> of a pile and hooking it up to a keyboard and mouse and a monitor and power
> and network is quite likely to get passed over in favour of something you
> can run in a VM. Especially if it's 4:30. This is why I have an Unused Arm
> Devices Pile Of Shame on my desk...
>
> So, partly this is our fault because we could've tested this earlier and
> didn't. But it's also the case that we really need more redundancy in as
> much of the required testing as possible.

I disagree with your assessment that it is your (Fedora QA's) fault.
It is not.  It is a resource issue that the community beyond just that
of Fedora QA can clearly help with.  This is not a Fedora QA failure.

josh
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