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.

I agree.

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