Re: Blocking criteria proposal for F30+: Printing

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On Mon, 2019-02-11 at 11:56 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 7:18 PM Adam Williamson
> <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 08:33 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > > There was a bug[1] filed recently that indicated that printing was
> > > broken on certain printers. As a result of that discussion, it became
> > > apparent that there was no criteria for printing to work at all, which
> > > seems like an oversight.
> > > 
> > > I discussed this briefly with Matthias Clasen this morning and he
> > > agreed that this should be treated as blocking for Workstation.
> > > 
> > > I'd like to propose that we add the following criteria to Beta for Fedora 30+:
> > > * Printing must work on at least one printer available to Fedora QA.
> > > "Work" is defined as the output from the device matching a preview
> > > shown on the GNOME print preview display. (Note that differences in
> > > color reproduction are not considered "non-working".)
> > > 
> > > and this to Final for Fedora 30+:
> > > * Printing must work on at least one printer using each of the
> > > following drivers:
> > > (I don't know which ones to specify here, but we ought to try to
> > > figure out a cross-section that covers a large swath of our expected
> > > user base).
> > 
> > So as with the optical media proposal we had quite a lively discussion
> > on this one, then it got stuck a bit. Stephen, can you take a look at
> > all the followups and either restate or revise the proposal? Thanks!
> 
> Sorry that it's taken me so long to get back to this.
> 
> I think the feedback on this has been mostly positive on the Beta
> criteria, but I'd like to tweak the phrasing a bit and see if this
> comes off more favorable:
> 
> I'd like to propose that we add the following criteria to Beta for Fedora 30+:
> * Printing must work on at least one printer available to Fedora QA.
> "Work" is defined as the output from the device matching a preview
> shown on the GNOME print preview display. (Note that differences in
> color reproduction are not considered "non-working".)
> 
> and this to Final for Fedora 30+:
> * Printing must work on at least one printer using each of the
> following drivers:
>     - The built-in print-to-PDF driver
>     - The generic IPP driver
> 
> To clarify, this does not mean that all printers need to function
> properly that use the IPP driver, just that at least one does (so we
> know that printing as a whole is unbroken). Contrary to the first
> proposal, we won't specify any particular hardware makes or models
> that must work.
> 
> How does that sound to people?

There was broad support for this proposal both on lists and in
meetings, so I am now implementing it with minor tweaks. Thanks
Stephen!
-- 
Adam Williamson
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