On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 09:59 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 09:15 -0400, Richard Ryniker wrote: > > "Auto Freeze Exeception" seems too complicated an answer to this > > question. > > > > Either continue to call new background a blocker, or decide it is > > desirable but not a blocking issue. > > > > If lovely new art is not available, some generic "Fnn" background > > could > > be used then replaced by an update after release, in order to avoid > > delay. > > This is actually exactly what's supposed to happen already, but it > seems no-one ever implemented such a mechanism. The criterion was > already watered down back in 2012 (from a version requiring the > wallpaper correctly identify the release) specifically to allow for > use > of a generic pre-release wallpaper outside of final releases. For some history, here's the discussion: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2010-09-03/fedora-b ugzappers.2010-09-03-16.00.log.html/ (search for 'art') that led to the original criteria: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093476.ht ml Here's the proposed blocker from 2012: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849982 that led to watering down the criteria to their current state: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2012-August/109712.html The discussion of the blocker is in this meeting: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2012-08-22/f18-alph a-blocker-review-4.2012-08-22-16.01.log.html What I *can't* find is any reference for the justification usually cited for the criterion. Several times we mention that there was an actual case where people downloaded an Alpha or Beta then got confused because the background was the same as the previous stable release, but I've been searching for 15 mins and can't find it. This is probably just because it's a difficult thing to search for, though. It's worth noting that we used to use considerably more 'striking' desktop backgrounds than we currently do; the last few releases have all been fairly subtle variations on the theme of 'abstract shapes in Fedora blue', really. Purely considering this criterion on its merits, I can live with removing at least the Alpha component. What worries me about this whole process is that twice now we'll have realized we can't meet some requirements which should be really pretty easy and decided to just throw them out instead. It should not be beyond the abilities of a decade-old software project to update its desktop backgrounds in a timely fashion. -- 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
