On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 16:20, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 14:35 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 14:25, Chris Lumens <clumens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> kickstart is a very broad area; you can write extremely complex >> >> kickstart files that do a lot of stuff. So broadly what we'd need to do >> >> is define a subset of kickstart functionality that we expect to work, >> >> and then possibly divide that up by release phase (so some stuff must >> >> work by Beta, the rest by Final, for e.g.) >> >> >> >> anaconda devs following this list, do you have any existing expectations >> >> as to what level of kickstart functionality ought to be in place for >> >> releases, and when you think would be appropriate? >> >> >> >> So far it seems everyone more or less agrees that it should be possible >> >> to do at least a basic unattended kickstart install by Beta. >> > >> > You're right, kickstart is incredibly broad. I don't think we could >> > ever hope to come up with criteria to cover all of it. I guess the best >> > we can do is define criteria in terms of something else we already have. >> >> I would go for the classical kickstart test for Alpha: >> >> Does it take a minimal kickstart and build a default system. The >> minimal being the exact stuff that would be created if a person just >> clicked through a release. > > Oh, I like that. That's very good. > >> For Beta >> >> Take these X broken kickstarts, does it bail at the appropriate places. >> Take these Y working kickstarts, does it work. >> Where Y is a set of items that can be tested on say a KVM or a >> "default" desktop defined somewhere. > > I'm not so keen on that; it's a bit specific. One of my fetishes with > the criteria is to keep them generic so they don't have to keep being > changed all the time; I wouldn't want a criterion to rely on some > specific kickstart file we keep lying around somewhere. Well I was trying to suggest something that wasn't handy-wavy. At some point a set of criteria are going to be needed for what is expected out anaconda at the minimum. From that criteria a set of test kickstarts can be built. If they dont' work then you have a blocker. Is that better? -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
