[F24 Criteria Change] Cockpit Release Criteria

[Simo Sorce]

On 22/10/15 14:35, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> Recently, we discovered a bug in gnutls that caused Cockpit to be
> unreachable by recent versions of Google Chrome. It was ambiguous what
> the release criteria actually means, since it didn't specify which
> browser applications were blocking. I'd like to propose the following
> additional wording for Cockpit criteria:
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> * All Cockpit functional criteria must be satisfied when the user is
> running any of the following blocking browsers:
>   - Mozilla Firefox as shipped in the same Fedora release
>   - Mozilla Firefox of the latest available version on Windows at
>     compose time.
>   - Mozilla Firefox of the latest available version on OSX at compose
>     time.
>   - Google Chrome of the latest available version on Fedora at compose
>     time.
>   - Google Chrome of the latest available version on Windows at compose
>     time.
>   - Google Chrome of the latest available version on OSX at compose time.
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> Alternately, we could decide that it's only *blocking* if the above
> browsers work with Cockpit when the browser is running on Fedora, but
> that is somewhat at odds with our reasoning for having a management
> console as a web UI in the first place: that it is accessible
> regardless of the client system.
>
> Comments welcome, but please keep replies on the
> test at lists.fedoraproject.org list, as that's where criteria decisions
> are made.

although I totally understand the reason I am against a release criteria 
*for Fedora* that forces a tester to install non-free Software (both OS 
*and* Browser).

Simo.

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