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

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On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 18:44 -0700, Adam Williamson 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
> don't think we're that likely to discover any exciting new protocols in
> the foreseeable future, so specifying HTTP and NFS is probably
> reasonably future-proof.

Ping on this one: any further thoughts? Didn't get much response the
first time out.
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