On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:30:44 -0400 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 don't even think the desktop background is all that visible anymore, especially on some desktops (like workstation/gnome). People there tend to use full screen apps and never even see the wallpaper. That also seems like a pretty poor way to tell what release you are running. > > 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. I agree. I think we should remove this critera from the alpha critera. ...snip... > 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? I don't think we should do this, it sounds overcomplex. How about we just let new backgrounds propose as FE's and get pulled in if we feel they should be. kevin
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