Default image target size [Was:Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-18)]

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 17:26 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> Lennart Poettering <mzerqung <at> 0pointer.de> writes:
> 
> > For those too lazy to calculate the difference between 1 GB and 1 GiB: 1
> > GB equals 953 MiB. We hence should probably stick to to 950 MiB as new
> > target image size.
> 
> To avoid confusion over units or rounding/truncation (1 GB isn't *exactly* 953
> MiB, for example), the QA size tests are expressed in bytes -  see
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Mediakit_ISO_Size .

FWIW, in the Deliverables SOP I've been working on for a bit -
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_releng_SOP_deliverables - I went with KiB, at least so far.

(The SOP is still under heavy revision, btw.)
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