RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 08:57:47PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 04/23/2012 08:14 PM, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> >>>  Fesco is saying that if you have hardware that can install via Anaconda,
> >>>  you must support installing via Anaconda. It's legitimate for you to
> >>>  also have other install mechanisms, and hardware that's incapable of
> >>>  supporting Anaconda installs isn't required to have them.
> >Thanks for the clarification.  I just wanted to make sure I understood that.
> 
> FESCo should make that more clear in the requirements but even if
> they do they still make secondary architecture solely depended upon
> the will and the time of someone within the "Installer team" to
> implement the solution required to install Fedora for their
> architecture before they can become primary architecture.

Yes, in the same way that they need someone in the kernel team to build 
them a kernel. It's a package. It's under active development. It just 
needs someone on the architecture to write the code.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org