On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 11:05 -0500, Petr Schindler wrote: > >> > We made this Beta not Alpha in the criteria on purpose, specifically >> > because we don't think it's a significant enough problem if the lives >> > are over-size at Alpha stage. It *may* be worth requiring at least >> > the >> > DVD to meet size requirements at Alpha size, although even if it's >> > over, >> > you can still test it in a VM or with a USB stick. I definitely think >> > we >> > shouldn't make the live sizes mandatory at Alpha. >> >> Here I don't know. I test in pre-alpha phase only on my VMs. When I >> want to boot on bare metal, I use USB stick. But it's truth that >> nothing new should be added after alpha. So the size of images should >> be quite the same then or not? Still I think it could be in beta. > > When we talk about 'nothing being added' after Alpha we're really > talking about major features. The package sets on the media can, and do, > change. It doesn't happen so much lately, but it's been the case in the > past that the Alpha live images were, say, 800MB, because no-one had yet > trimmed the package set down to keep them under a CD in size. Then they > did get properly trimmed down for Beta or Final. We don't want to block > the Alpha if this happens. Yes this has been discussed multiple times but ... do we really still care about "omg it does not fit on a CD" ? I mean it is 2012 ... -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
