As promised at yesterday's Go/No-Go meeting, I'm starting a discussion on the Alpha criterion that states: "The default desktop background must be different from that of the two previous stable releases." As I understand it, the intent is essentially that no one booting a Fedora pre-release should infer that it is a stable release and that this should be obvious from the desktop background. I suppose this makes some sense for Live media (particularly when burned to a USB stick that may not have a label). That being said, I do not agree that this should be a *blocking* issue for release. It's very likely to get into "last blocker" discussions (as it did yesterday). (By "last blocker" I mean those cases where the Go/No-Go would tend to waive it as a blocker if it was the only one holding up a release). To me, that means it's not really a blocker (and shouldn't be classified as one). I'd like to propose that we remove this as a strict blocking criterion and instead introduce a new category of criteria for automatic freeze -exceptions of which this could be a part. Essentially, up to the moment that an RC is declared gold, any changes made to support an automatic freeze-exception must be pulled in. The idea would be that these auto-FEs should still be part of the validation runs, but not blocking for the release. Does this seem like a reasonable middle-ground?
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