On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 07:52 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 01:14 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > 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." > > > > Well, what does 'supported by the upstream software' mean exactly? In > > what version(s)? Does this mean if grub2's Ubuntu support breaks, we > > don't have to care about fixing it? > > Yeah I was worried that might be too vague. Next try: > > "The installer must be able to install into free space alongside > existing GNU/Linux installations that are intended to be detected by the > upstream software for detecting previously-installed operating systems, > and install a bootloader which can boot into each previous > installation." > > This doesn't feel quite right either, though. Maybe we could push the > Windows and OS X criteria forward in the meantime if we need more work > on the Linux one. Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable idea - I'll throw it on the meeting agenda for tomorrow and circle back and extract those proposals so we can vote on / implement them. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
