Re: future of official optical media support in Fedora

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On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 08:44 -0500, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > > > Idea #2: Do not block on optical media issues for Final release for
> > > > certain
> > > > flavors/image types (Server, netinst)
> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 
> > The outcome seems to be we should block on Workstation Live and Everything
> > netinst. Stephen confirmed his "remote DVD drive" installation was not
> > affected by the firmware issue causing some optical disks failing to boot.
> > Also just testing one Live and one netinst should give us a high probability
> > to detect all such issues, because all the Live and DVD+netinst images are
> > created the same way. I'll again propose a criterion adjustment on the test
> > list.
> > 
> > Thanks everyone for providing valuable feedback.
> > 
> 
> Sigh, I found a minor setback. We agreed Everything netinst is the
> best candidate for release blocking as an optical medium, but today I
> found out Everything netinst is marked as *not* release blocking at
> all [1]. Which some somewhat funny, because I always considered it as
> such (and I think more of us did), and this is quite a surprise for
> me. And if we don't block on it, we can't obviously block on it when
> it's burned to a spinning disc.
> 
> One solution here is to make Everything netinst release blocking.
> There is a good use case for that, it's the most universal install
> medium we have (you can install anything from it). A different
> solution is to mark e.g. Server netinst as blocking for optical
> media, but that will cover only Server (so no Workstation or KDE
> support in case optical boot is really broken).
> 
> Thoughts?

+1 for that. I believe the sticking point before has been the question
of what team/WG/SIG/whatever is 'responsible' for the image, but that
seems a kind of overly-theoretical concern.
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