> > Hi folks! So if I may, can we try and reset this thread to the criteria > discussion? it'd be good to have any new criteria in place before we hit > Beta TC1. > > So I believe we have under discussion the following criteria: > > 1. "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." > > This one is simply dropping the UEFI get-out clause from the current > Final criterion. I am a big solid +1 to this. If no-one has any > objections let's get this one implemented this week. > I'm a solid +1 for this as well. > 2. "The installer must be able to install into free space alongside an > existing OS X installation, install and configure a bootloader that will > boot Fedora; if the boot menu presents OS X entries, they should boot OS > X." > > (so far as I could see on a quick skim back through the thread, this was > the most recent version of the OS X proposal). I am +1 to this too, it > seems reasonable. We could perhaps insert that the Fedora install > process should not render the OS X install unbootable from the EFI boot > manager? > I'm a +1 in general for this criterion. We should for sure include the bit about not rendering OS X unbootable. If it were me and I was wanting to check out Fedora with a dual boot, I'd be kinda peeved if it wrecked my working day-to-day OS. > 3. The installer must be able to install into free space alongside an > existing GNU/Linux installation, install and configure a bootloader that > will boot both systems, within the limitations of the upstream > bootloader." > Within the limitations? [show] Purpose of this clause is to not require > us to fix upstream bootloader bugs or design limitations. > > This is the complex one we're still struggling with. I think the above > is possibly a little broad and could do with either limiting to > stock-ish installs of 'commonly-used' or 'popular' distributions, or > some more vaguely-worded wiggle room clause. I don't want to have to > come up with some kind of criterion judo to justify us not slipping > Final release three weeks to fix, I don't know, dual-boot with an xfs > install of Fermi or something (no disrespect intended, Fermi users...) As worded now it could leave us in a bind without some limiting. If we went the route of "commonly-used" distros, how would we decide that and what would the update policy for the list be? > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net > http://www.happyassassin.net -- // Mike -- Fedora QA freenode: roshi http://roshi.fedorapeople.org -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
