Release critiera proposal: reword the EFI criterion and, for F17, move it to Alpha

[Jurgen Kramer]

On 17 aug. 2011, at 21:52, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 12:48 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
>> Now I think about it, here's an alternative: let's just dump the
>> EFI-specific criterion and take EFI bugs under the generic criteria. I
>> don't see why we can't just say that the installer failing to boot on an
>> EFI system is a violation of "The installer must boot (if appropriate)
>> and run on all primary architectures from default live image, DVD, and
>> boot.iso install media", for instance. It *is*, after all. Ditto for "In
>> most cases (see Blocker_Bug_FAQ), a system installed according to any of
>> the above criteria (or the appropriate Beta or Final criteria, when
>> applying this criterion to those releases) must boot to the 'firstboot'
>> utility on the first boot after installation", and any of the "The
>> installer must be able to complete an installation" clauses...
> 
> So, a way to clarify that would be to amend:
> 
> "The installer must boot (if appropriate) and run on all primary
> architectures from default live image, DVD, and boot.iso install media"
> 
> to read:
> 
> "The installer must boot (if appropriate) and run on all primary
> architectures, with all system firmware types that are common on those
> architectures, from default live image, DVD, and boot.iso install media"

> This sounds good to me. The previous wording regarding to Mac systems made me wonder if they were included at all.

>