Proposing new dual booting release criteria

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 07:52 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 01:14 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > For the Linux criterion, how about this:
> > > 
> > > "The installer must be able to install into free space alongside
> > > existing GNU/Linux installations supported by the upstream software for
> > > detecting previously-installed operating systems, and install a
> > > bootloader which can boot into each previous installation."
> > 
> > Well, what does 'supported by the upstream software' mean exactly? In
> > what version(s)? Does this mean if grub2's Ubuntu support breaks, we
> > don't have to care about fixing it?
> 
> Yeah I was worried that might be too vague. Next try:
> 
> "The installer must be able to install into free space alongside
> existing GNU/Linux installations that are intended to be detected by the
> upstream software for detecting previously-installed operating systems,
> and install a bootloader which can boot into each previous
> installation."
> 
> This doesn't feel quite right either, though. Maybe we could push the
> Windows and OS X criteria forward in the meantime if we need more work
> on the Linux one.

Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable idea - I'll throw it on the meeting
agenda for tomorrow and circle back and extract those proposals so we
can vote on / implement them.
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