Hi,
I'm working on test cases and criteria for fedora now and I have two questions about installation interfaces.
Are you going to support upgrading in text mode? There is no criterion on this, but we have some test cases. I'd like to know, if you want to support it and have some criterion (beta or final). If you want to support upgrading in text, there is bug from F16 release testing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=742207
Second question is, whether you want to support cmdline installation. This is again about interfaces. We have test case for this, but no criterion. There is only alpha criterion "The installer must be able to complete an installation using the text, graphical and VNC installation interfaces". I'd like to improve it to something like "The installer must be able to complete an installation using all installation interfaces" (which includes installation using serial console - there is no criterion for this yet) and add this criterion at final release criteria. What do you say?
Please let me know what is your point of view.
Regard Petr Schindler fedoraQA team
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From: "Petr Schindler" pschindl@redhat.com To: "anaconda-devel-list" anaconda-devel-list@redhat.com Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:05:44 AM Subject: supported installation interfaces
Hi,
I'm working on test cases and criteria for fedora now and I have two questions about installation interfaces.
Are you going to support upgrading in text mode? There is no criterion on this, but we have some test cases. I'd like to know, if you want to support it and have some criterion (beta or final). If you want to support upgrading in text, there is bug from F16 release testing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=742207
Second question is, whether you want to support cmdline installation. This is again about interfaces. We have test case for this, but no criterion. There is only alpha criterion "The installer must be able to complete an installation using the text, graphical and VNC installation interfaces". I'd like to improve it to something like "The installer must be able to complete an installation using all installation interfaces" (which includes installation using serial console - there is no criterion for this yet) and add this criterion at final release criteria. What do you say?
Please let me know what is your point of view.
Hi, some suggestions here??
Regard Petr Schindler fedoraQA team
Are you going to support upgrading in text mode? There is no criterion on this, but we have some test cases. I'd like to know, if you want to support it and have some criterion (beta or final). If you want to support upgrading in text, there is bug from F16 release testing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=742207
Text mode upgrades should be supported, as there's no partitioning or package selection involved and those were the biggest problems with supporting text mode.
Second question is, whether you want to support cmdline installation. This is again about interfaces. We have test case for this, but no criterion. There is only alpha criterion "The installer must be able to complete an installation using the text, graphical and VNC installation interfaces". I'd like to improve it to something like "The installer must be able to complete an installation using all installation interfaces" (which includes installation using serial console - there is no criterion for this yet) and add this criterion at final release criteria. What do you say?
I wouldn't worry too much about formalizing anything around cmdline mode right now. As part of the UI rewrite, we are rethinking what kinds of interfaces are necessary. I'm not sure what the future of cmdline mode is.
- Chris
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 10:37 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote:
Second question is, whether you want to support cmdline installation. This is again about interfaces. We have test case for this, but no criterion. There is only alpha criterion "The installer must be able to complete an installation using the text, graphical and VNC installation interfaces". I'd like to improve it to something like "The installer must be able to complete an installation using all installation interfaces" (which includes installation using serial console - there is no criterion for this yet) and add this criterion at final release criteria. What do you say?
I wouldn't worry too much about formalizing anything around cmdline mode right now. As part of the UI rewrite, we are rethinking what kinds of interfaces are necessary. I'm not sure what the future of cmdline mode is.
Thanks, Chris. The other interface with an uncertain status is serial. We're clear that serial install shouldn't block Alpha, but we still didn't finally decide whether it should block Beta, Final or nothing. What's anaconda team's position on it?
Thanks, Chris. The other interface with an uncertain status is serial. We're clear that serial install shouldn't block Alpha, but we still didn't finally decide whether it should block Beta, Final or nothing. What's anaconda team's position on it?
Final seems fine to me, too. Serial will be getting a bit of a makeover with the rest of the UI (and will probably be subject to the same restrictions regarding when it's in rawhide), hopefully resulting in it looking less like crap than it does now.
- Chris
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