On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:52 -0500, Petr Schindler wrote: > > From: "Adam Williamson" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 4:51:56 AM > > Subject: Re: New criterion for installation with minimal set of packages > > > > On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 21:56 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Adam Williamson > > > <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > Yeah, this is kind of problematic, because I don't really want > > > > the > > > > release criteria to prescribe exactly what the 'minimal' package > > > > set > > > > should include. Perhaps we should just explicitly refer to 'the > > > > installer's "minimal" package set' or something like that > > > > > > True - come to think of it, I really don't believe that it is QA's > > > domain to define the task list - but it should be somebody's. What > > > I > > > don't want is the feature creep of the "minimal" package set - next > > > thing you know, GNOME will be part of that package set. But I don't > > > think that QA is the appropriate place to address those concerns :) > > > > Yeah. As far as QA is concerned, the key questions are 'is there a > > minimal package set present, does an install with that package set > > complete properly, does it boot'. What's *in* it is not really our > > concern. > > So new beta criteria should be: > > "The installer must be able to complete package installation with a > minimal usable set of packages" > > And what "minimal set" means should be defined somewhere else? And as > soon as it will be somewhere, we should give the link. More or less, yeah. Maybe we should make the criterion: "The installer must offer a 'minimal' installation option, and must be able to complete installation successfully when this option is selected" (note that a later criterion specifies that any install according to earlier criteria should boot, so we don't need to specify that). -- 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
