Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

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> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 08:22:52AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > I tried to make a core selection. I had the following in mind:
> > 1. Kickstarts are used for automation, therefore the most important
> > commands related to automation must work (manual intervention is
> > not fine).
> > 2. Commands which are easily work-aroundable shouldn't be part of
> > the core selection.
> >   Example: 'authconfig' kickstart command is just a wrapper around
> >   authconfig tool. You can issue the same command in %post and it
> >   should do the same. If %post works, it's trivial to work around
> >   nonfunctional authconfig kickstart command. The same applies for
> >   'firewall', 'group', 'user' and others, it's trivial to run it
> >   in %post.
> 
> Having depended on kickstart for years, I'm of the very strong belief
> that
> while it's okay to have a subset for alpha and beta blockers,
> *all*documented commands should work for final unless they were
> marked as
> deprecated and gave warnings in a previous release. (Preferably two
> releases, since jumping one release is expected with our lifecycle.)

I would prefer this as well, I'm just afraid it's not realistic. We now have months of delay and still dozens of accepted and proposed final blockers. If we demand something like that, we might not be able to release at all.

Of course, in a better world, big thumb up.
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