Release criterion proposal: live image persistence

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 04:28 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 10:01 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 04:42 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > > > > So, I'm proposing a criterion for Final:
> > > > > 
> > > > > * It must be possible to create a USB stick from a live image,
> > > > > using
> > > > > the
> > > > > appropriate Fedora tool, with a persistent storage overlay for
> > > > > the
> > > > > entire system and/or a separate overlay for the /home directory
> > > > 
> > > > ACK for the idea, but I think we should clearly state whether we
> > > > require _some_ supported tool to be able to create it, or all of
> > > > them. Because we have two tools that can do it,
> > > > livecd-iso-to-disk and Fedora LiveUSB Creator, right?
> > > > 
> > > > What if one of them works (in terms of persistent storage) and
> > > > the other doesn't?
> > > 
> > > I actually forgot about luc.
> > > 
> > > Still, in terms of release criticality, the important thing is
> > > whether
> > > there are issues in the _image_ which prevent the feature working.
> > > The
> > > tools are in the same kind of status as preupgrade - they don't
> > > really
> > > affect the freeze/ship cycle at all.
> > > 
> > > So I'm kinda in two minds about whether to pull it in...
> > 
> > How about, as a patch, 'appropriate Fedora tools' rather than
> > 'appropriate Fedora tool'?
> 
> If we hadn't this conversation it is pretty likely I would still have
> that question even with the "patch". Maybe we could plainly state that
> the persistent storage feature must work, i.e. there must be at least
> one tool that successfully creates the USB boot media correctly? If we
> phrase it this way, it seems clearer to me.

How about...

* The live images must properly support mounting and using a persistent
storage overlay for the entire system and/or one for the /home
partition, if such an overlay or overlays have been correctly written to
the medium from which the image is booted

Does that better encapsulate that we require the images to work properly
wrt persistent overlay, but the tools can be fixed post-release?
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