Proposed release criteria additions for F14+

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Mon Jun 28 09:10:51 UTC 2010


----- "Adam Williamson" <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 03:14 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> 
> > And what about this one additional:
> > 
> >  * Network interfaces must be configured properly and automatically
> 
> >   enabled on boot so that Internet/LAN connection works by default
> >   whenever possible. This requirement does not apply when custom
> >   networking properties are chosen during installation process.
> > 
> > I'm talking about the infamous "feature" of Fedora that forces user
> > to enable networking every time after boot if he installed the
> system
> > from DVD (most cases anyway). It is really bad experience, we
> should
> > make sure it doesn't happen next time.
> 
> And I'm saying again that the release criteria process is not the
> place
> to put feature requests. We are codifying the existing behaviour we
> want
> to be sure is correct at each release, not proposing modifications in
> existing behaviour. The appropriate place to take this up is in an
> RFE
> against NM/Anaconda, except I know they're already working on changes
> (network configuration via NM during install process).

I know Anaconda guys work on it and I didn't see it as a feature request.
I consider it more like an insurance that if it is broken in the
future by some bug, we can put it into the blocker list.


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