On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 08:47 +0100, drago01 wrote: > 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 ... It's off-topic for this thread, and it's for the spins to decide for themselves. -- 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
