On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 19:39 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
However, it seems that our
blocker criteria do not describe one institutional guideline that we've
been trying to follow: that alternative architectures should be
delivering the same content as the "primary" architectures.
Nitpick: ARM *is* a primary architecture. x86_64 and armhfp are the
current Fedora primary architectures. All others are 'alternat(iv)e
architectures' (the words 'alternate' and 'alternative' seem to be
used
as if they were interchangeable, in the various pages discussing this).
Ref:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures
What I would like to propose (wordsmithing welcome) is an addendum
to
the Beta criteria under the Installer->Default Package Set requirements:
"The default package set installed from blocking media must be the same
on all architectures for that Edition, Spin or netinstall except for
packages whose sole purpose is hardware enablement for one or more
architectures."
Breaking it down, I think we should have an explicit criterion that
installing the default package set for e.g. XFCE spin on armv7 must be
the same set of packages you would get in a default install of e.g. XFCE
spin on x86_64.
Well, we weren't talking about only changing the default on ARM, in the
meeting. The implication was that we'd change the default for x86_64 as
well. Since about three weeks ago we don't technically *have* to, I
think, because we tweaked comps to allow specifying packages by arch,
but we've not actually used this at all yet.
The wrinkle in this situation is that Xfce is *only* a release-blocking
environment *for ARM*. It is not a release blocking environment for
x86_64. So I don't think the proposed criterion would actually *mean*
much in this case. If someone actually decided to push for changing the
Xfce default browser as a resolution to the bug (rather than fixing
Firefox), telling them they have to change it for x86_64 as well as ARM
probably wouldn't dissuade them. They'd just say "Fine, we'll do
that."
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