F19 Final criteria revamp

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 06/12/2013 02:38 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 19:17 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> On 06/11/2013 12:37 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>> Installing to a freespace should be uncontroversial indeed it's the
>>> resize I was referring to and as afaik when you buy a set of hardware
>>> with windows installed it does not come with "freespace" available
>>> and we should only be "supporting" dealing with factory defaults but as
>>> Samuel points out earlier in the thread
>>>
>> The criteria specifically refers to installing to freespace, so other
>> than the single partition reference what is the problem?  If the user
>> wants to install alongside a default windows install, they will either
>> have to resize the partitions on their own or risk letting the installer
>> resize it (if it will).
> I can kinda see Johann's point, which is that - since most dual boot
> installs will require a resize - if we don't 'support' resize, we're
> really not 'supporting' dual boot installs. He's not wrong. But overall,
> I think it's worthwhile having the criterion to ensure that, as cmurf
> said, we at least make sure we get the bootloader stuff right at release
> time.

Yeah that was my point.

If we are going to support dual boot we should do so fully ( 
freespace/resize/boot loader entries windows/linux linux/windows 
linux/linux )

If we are not or simply cant ( we should be able to at least support 
dual booting linux/linux ) we should not have it in the criteria ( but 
still could perform the tests )

JBG