Re: Proposing new dual booting release criteria

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On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 21:46 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I think the language you have is functional, it just needs a delimiter
> establishing our purview. Although, I'd suggest the size of the
> distribution doesn't matter, if we nerf someone's system because of
> something we're not doing correctly I think we should block on that.

So are we fine with the Windows and OS X criteria as originally
proposed? Adam, would these be better as beta blockers or as final
blockers?

"The installer must be able to install into free space alongside an
existing clean Windows installation and install a bootloader which can
boot into both Windows and Fedora."

"The installer must be able to install into free space alongside an
existing clean OS X installation and install a bootloader which can boot
into both OS X and Fedora, OR the installer must prominently warn the
user that he may be unable to boot OS X after installation, allowing the
user to cancel installation and reboot to OS X."

For the Linux criterion, how about this:

"The installer must be able to install into free space alongside
existing GNU/Linux installations supported by the upstream software for
detecting previously-installed operating systems, and install a
bootloader which can boot into each previous installation."

The intent of this is that if upstream os-prober supports it and (a)
Fedora breaks it or (b) it's unexpectedly broken due to a regression (my
language here is kind of ambiguous; not sure if that's good or bad),
then that's a blocker. It also implicitly applies to cases where
multiple GNU/Linux systems are installed. We would then replace this
criterion in the future if BLS is adopted.

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