On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 14:47 -0400, James Laska wrote:
I was just trying to cover the possibilities. For me, the appearance of a graphical menu is really a polish issue and doesn't fit well with Alpha, it seems more suited to Beta or Final. But the practical element is whether the boot-to-the-installer process actually works, no matter what you see in the meantime. For me the loss of the other options on the menu isn't really critical until beta, but the install process should at least start if you just boot and wait at Alpha stage.
It may be too much effort to draw this distinction, though, in which case we may as well go with #1.
Yeah, definitely #1.
I have gone ahead and added this criterion to the F14 Alpha criteria:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_Release_Criteria#Alpha_Releas...
Another thought, I recall there was some debate about adding release criteria for the artwork. Would it make sense to rephrase the second point to something more specific to Fedora artwork? [1]
For me that's *definitely* a final release polish issue. I don't think we can really say we want to delay the Alpha or even Beta release simply for an old wallpaper on the bootloader menu, can we?
No, I wouldn't argue this as a Alpha (or possibly Beta) criteria. I only meant to suggest that it could be combined with something more generic about artwork for the release. Like you point out above, it feels more like a polish issue. Much like many of the artwork issues (not meant to diminish their contribution, only that they are not required for proper function).
We should probably start a new thread to discuss what polish criterion / criteria we want to add.