On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 1:30 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 22:35 -0400, Harold Dost wrote:
> Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome?
Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW drive and media
around any more. It takes like a half hour just to write all the media
for testing, then another few hours to run complete installs from them
all (since optical media are *slow*).
If it's not burdensome, why does no-one except the paid RH folks ever
seem to run the test? And usually at the last minute, at that?
I've had to buy three DVD-RW drives *solely for the purpose of being
able to test this* (they keep dying, the things aren't terribly
reliable). And I keep a spindle of media around, again, solely for the
purpose of testing this, I don't use them for anything else. (In fact
I've nearly run out, so if we keep this criteria, I'm gonna have to go
out and blow some money on some more media I won't ever use for
anything but testing this).
If people outside of the RH team ever actually ran this test, I'd be
more in favour of keeping it, but I don't think any of the people
speaking up about how vital this is to them have ever actually chipped
in and run the test before.
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I want to make sure that I'm on the same page.
Based on:
Yes. We do not have 'burning optical discs from Fedora must
work' in
the release criteria, and never have. What we have in the release
criteria is this:
"Release-blocking live and dedicated installer images must boot
when
written to optical media of an appropriate size"
Matthew is proposing that we drop that.
Would it be calculable based on the ISO size whether it would author
correctly (only in terms of size) with out needing to burn it to a
real disk? Then burning to a disk would not be necessary, but prevents
the image from becoming overly bloated.