Re: media size criteria change proposal

[Kamil Paral <kparal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Kamil Paral <kparal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is related to KDE Live being oversize at Beta:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561763

which should have been a blocker, but it was agreed that we will change criteria instead. Here's a proposal for that change.

Instead of current Beta criterion:
"The release-blocking images must meet current size requirements."
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Beta_Release_Criteria#image-size-requirements

I propose to move that criterion to Final milestone instead, and use this wording:
"The release-blocking images must meet current size requirements, as documented at [Releases/28/ReleaseBlocking][1]." (the release number will of course change in time)

I chose [1] over [2], because [1] contains all important release-blocking images (distinguished to individual .iso or .img level), while [2] only contains spins and nothing else. In [1], we will add a new column labeled "target size" and fill it out. It is enough to fill it out just for images marked as release blocking. The nice thing is that in that table you can easily see who is responsible for that image, and so it's clear who's responsible for keeping the target size up-to-date (and also whom to ping if it isn't).

The reason to move this criterion to Final is that we no longer block on optical images for Beta (that's quite a recent change), and with flash drives you can always get a larger flash drive to fit the image on. So it's no longer necessary to insist on perfect size for Beta. And being oversize is honestly just a minor problem.

Note that I haven't proposed any particular sizes for any particular images. I believe that should be all the responsibility and decision of the owning group (or perhaps FESCo, for some generic images), not QA.

Thoughts?

This got pre-approved on latest QA meeting. I adjusted the wiki page and created a "target size" column:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/28/ReleaseBlocking

I was also tasked by contacting all the individual maintainers and ask them to consider the current target size and provide an up-to-date one. I've sent the requests here:
https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/47
https://pagure.io/fedora-server/issue/4
https://pagure.io/cloud-sig/issue/285
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/5OWPFHSFG4TJMLPTHZPOPSUMKWTTZPKU/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/U42LRU7BTYROGWVHLJXLCHUOQYDC7UM7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/spins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/EUWVRUTA7EQPGSNCT42FONZJCLL5AIYI/

Now it's waiting for the image owners to respond.

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