Dropping i686 media for F24

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 15:03 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 08:43:44PM +0200, drago01 wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Christian Schaller <
> > cschalle at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Well there seems to be more laptops/desktops still in use on
> > > i686,
> > > and it is not a lot of engineering overhead. Is there a request
> > > from
> > > release engineering to be allowed to drop i686 media? (I would
> > > assume the
> > > gains are relatively small since we would need to keep i686
> > > packages around for
> > > some time regardless of having install media.)
> > 
> > Its the kernel team that said that i686 bugs are low priority for
> > them.
> 
> That was definitely a big motivator, yes.  But in addition the
> statistics Matthew Miller showed at Flock clearly indicate the trend
> is against i686 for some time now.  In fact, there's a good argument
> to be made that we haven't added any significant number of those
> systems in some time (years), and it's a zombie population at this
> point (q.v. <http://jwboyer.livejournal.com/49909.html>).
> 
> The overall WG response I recall is to the effect of, "If an i686
> media/tree is not going to be well supported, we don't want it in the
> edition we ship."
> 
> I don't think it's extra rel-eng work to ship.  It's not clear
> whether
> it costs QA any time, but if it doesn't I guess I'd wonder where the
> actual testing is happening. :-) (This is not in any way a dig at
> QA.)
> So for me, if we can't say with certainty an i686 installation is an
> equivalent experience to x86_64, with the same support, we shouldn't
> ship it.
> 

QA does indeed have to test i686, so it would be a significant
reduction in effort for them at release validation time to drop i686.
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