critera proposal/discussion: boot.fedoraproject.org

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Mon Jan 14 16:02:42 UTC 2013


On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:39:31 -0500 (EST)
Kamil Paral <kparal at redhat.com> wrote:
 
> Fedora 18 Beta is not present, at least I don't see it. I downloaded
> the ISO image and booted inside VM (I wonder why it takes 15 seconds
> to display the graphical menu with CPU running at 100%).

It's in the 'prerelease' menu. 

> By using BFO you download 240 MB (kernel+initrd+squashfs.img),
> netinst is 310 MB. So you save something, yes, unless you want to run
> it several times.

Indeed. 

> > Do you think we should retire the service?
> 
> No, I didn't want to imply that. I'm sure some people will find it
> useful. But I have to say it's hard for me to imagine the use cases.
> I see just corner cases like machines without an optical drive and
> with no USB boot capabilities.
> 
> 
> It's totally OK if we create an optional test case for it. That will
> ensure it gets some testing throughout the development cycle.
> Volunteers, step forward, please :)

Right. 

kevin
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