Re: Release criteria proposal: downgrade some kickstart delivery methods from Beta to Final

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 19:44, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey, folks. So, currently the Beta criteria state:
>
> "The installer must be able to use all kickstart delivery methods"
>
> This is probably over-ambitious for Beta. We have some pretty odd
> kickstart delivery methods:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Kickstart_File_Path_Ks_Cfg
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Kickstart_Hd_Device_Path_Ks_Cfg
>
> that are only really useful in pretty unusual scenarios. In fact the
> first of these is broken in F16 Beta and we decided to go ahead and
> release it anyway (on the basis that we agreed this criterion should be
> changed, which is why I'm proposing a change now), and the world has not
> ended.
>
> I'd propose at least this much change:
>
> for Beta, the criterion should read
>
> "The installer must be able to use the HTTP and NFS kickstart delivery
> methods"
>
> as those are the two that are really useful in most situations, and we
> move
>
> "The installer must be able to use all kickstart delivery methods"
>
> to be a Final criterion. Thoughts? The Beta criterion is a bit more
> 'technology-specific' than I usually like to make the criteria, but I

For those of us not up on all the methods these days.. what are they
(and which one didn't work for Beta :)) The reason I ask is if one of
the methods is via UUCP .. I don't think even Final is really
something we could care about :).



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