On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 23:36 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 1:12 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 7:27 AM Lukas Ruzicka <lruzicka(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to propose a new release covering criterion that was suggested on
the yesterday's Blocker Review Meeting. Please let me know, what you think about it
and perhaps suggest improvements.
> >
>
> I like the idea of dual monitors being a blocker in general, but as
> this thread shows, it gets complicated quickly. I think if we do this,
> it should be very narrowly scoped. The two main use cases we need to
> worry about are:
>
> 1. Laptop with an external monitor (and does it have to be directly
> attached, or would we block if a monitor attached via a docking
> station doesn't work?)
> 2. Desktop with a single video card that drives two monitors
>
> I suspect that this would cover most usage without getting too caught
> up in all of the possible hardware combinations, especially since one
> major video card manufacturer isn't the best at supporting Linux.
>
I agree.
Yeah, I think even the 'conservative' version is a bit too ambitious
for a first movement towards blocking on this. I agree with Ben and
Chris about restricting it to these most-common and most-important
cases, and we might want to hedge it around a bit with reference to the
relevant FAQ sections:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blocker_Bug_FAQ#What_about_hardware_and_lo...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blocker_Bug_FAQ#Why_isn.27t_my_graphics_ca...
I think personally I'd probably only be inclined to take a bug in this
area as a blocker if it completely broke external output on a popular
laptop line or family (e.g. XPS 13, Thinkpad X1), or broke things
across a popular family or generation of desktop adapters...
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