On Sat, 2019-12-14 at 09:37 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 9:26 AM Justin W. Flory <jflory7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > For what it's worth, I like Miro's idea a lot but also haven't > > thought about it extensively. I think this could prioritize these > > issues as release-blocking when we don't have enough data to > > understand the impact of this Change, but it also saves a lot of > > time and effort on the QA team for shipping releases to focus on > > other things. Another piece of feedback I'd be interested to know > > is how often serious issues do come up when testing optical media, > > or if the issue is that it is just a lot of manual work that is > > hard to do. > > > > Some of my 2¢. > > Isn't the primary optical media testing done these days by mounting an > iso image attached to a virtual machine? I'd not even bother burning > media these days until it passed this test, due to the need for > hands-on media management. And it's certainly one of the use caes for > virtual media and iso images. I'm not suggesting that physical media > not be tested, but isn't all the media testing first done with a > virtual OS and virtual media? In which case, the virtual image testing > is pretty much happening anyway. Yes, but the point of this proposal is that we are still required to test actual physical media. Booting from a virtual optical disc is tested automatically several dozen times with each nightly compose. -- 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 Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
