[F24 Criteria Change] Cockpit Release Criteria

[Dan Mossor]

On 10/23/2015 04:42 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> * 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
I'm with Simo. I *DO NOT* want to place a burden on a FOSS operating 
system to be 100% compatible with non-FOSS software.

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