On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 17:33 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 06/10/2013 04:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 08:46 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > > >> We should just drop that entirely. > >> > >> Our criteria should not depend on windows ( or any other OS for that > >> matter ) nor can we expect all users to own a windows or require it from > >> them to obtain it legally or illegally just so this get's tested. > >> > >> Red Hat can just keep this criteria for RHEL if that's the reason for it > >> to exist there in the first place in since it can supply it's employees > >> with valid Microsoft releases to test against. > > No, the criterion has nothing to do with RHEL. I don't know if > > multi-boot is even a supported deployment method for RHEL (I suspect > > not, but I have absolutely no idea). It was created as part of the > > original criteria effort at F13 because this is something people > > generally expect Linux distributions to be able to do, and they get > > angry if they can't. Each time this has been brought up since, it's > > seemed fairly clear that the majority of people still believe this > > should be the case, even though you think it's now a 'legacy' thing. > > You mean few users here on the test list think it's a must thing afaik > there has not been a system wide community survey regarding this ( and > usually is not regarding things we deprecate ) Well, let me put it more baldly: up till now I can't recall a single person agreeing with you that we should stop blocking on basic multiboot-alongside-a-simple-Windows-install. Not a single person. I agree we have a very small sample size on this list, but still, that seems pretty indicative. I can run a forum poll if you like, though... -- 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
