On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 20:41 +0100, agraham wrote: > On 09/08/2011 08:22 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 19:42 +0100, agraham wrote: > > > >>> It's intentionally ambiguous: I try to write the criteria as generically > >>> as possible. This ensures we don't have to rewrite them just because we > >>> change tack. (Remember, our 'preferred virt technology' was Xen not so > >>> long ago; if we'd had hardcoded criteria that stated 'Xen' at that > >>> point, we'd have had to rewrite them to say 'KVM'). I think it's just > >>> more correct, too: our intent is not that 'KVM should work', really, our > >>> intent really is 'whatever Fedora currently reckons is The Good Stuff > >>> should work'. Same reason the criteria say 'the installer' and not > >>> 'anaconda', and 'refer generically to 'release-blocking desktops', not > >>> 'GNOME and KDE'. > >> > >> I fully understand where you are coming from, when it comes to policy > >> statements, they usually refer to now and possibly the past, but not > >> future. because policies usually needs to change as you state. > > > > sure, but it certainly helps to write them in such a way that they'll > > need to change as little as possible. it's already enough work > > maintaining the criteria :/ > > Regarding the term "Releases", what does this mean? > > Does it include all versions of the Live CDs/USB images as well as the > normal DVDs images. > > i.e. anything on the download page (for a specific version + n-1), I'm > just thinking of what actually needs to be tested in order to meet the > policy. It's somewhat flexible. It's very hard to encode absolutely _everything_, though I'm in favour of trying. =) It's kinda striking a balance between sufficiently comprehensive criteria, and not having them look like the EU legal code... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
