Change of release level of Mediakit ISO Size test case

[Petr Schindler]

> From: "Adam Williamson" <awilliam at redhat.com>
> To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:52:49 AM
> Subject: Re: Change of release level of Mediakit ISO Size test case
> 
> On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 20:40 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> > Petr Schindler <pschindl <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Test case [1] is marked as alpha release level in [2]. I propose
> > > to change it
> > to beta. We have beta criterion
> > > "The network installation image, DVD image, and live images for
> > release-blocking desktops must meet
> > > current size requirements" for this.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Mediakit_ISO_Size
> > > [2]
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
> > 
> > I'd prefer that this test be left at alpha level, since if it
> > fails, then anyone
> > who needs to use the corresponding media is blocked from any other
> > testing as
> > well. There's also the issue that having to reduce the size of the
> > image at a
> > later point runs the risk of causing further problems in deciding
> > what to cut.
> > If some media are considered less important than others, maybe
> > there could be
> > separate size tests for the different media.
> 
> We made this Beta not Alpha in the criteria on purpose, specifically
> because we don't think it's a significant enough problem if the lives
> are over-size at Alpha stage. It *may* be worth requiring at least
> the
> DVD to meet size requirements at Alpha size, although even if it's
> over,
> you can still test it in a VM or with a USB stick. I definitely think
> we
> shouldn't make the live sizes mandatory at Alpha.

Here I don't know. I test in pre-alpha phase only on my VMs. When I want to boot on bare metal, I use USB stick. But it's truth that nothing new should be added after alpha. So the size of images should be quite the same then or not? Still I think it could be in beta.