Release Criteria Proposal: Xen DomU

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 13:24 -0600, Tim Flink wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:18:39 -0600
> Tim Flink <tflink at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > My intention was to include issues with DomU running locally (with an
> > already functional Fedora Dom0) or on a Xen based cloud provider. My
> > implicit assumption was that Dom0 would already be working but since
> > F16 is the first supported Dom0 since F8, that could be problematic.
> > For F17 and later, I imagine that we could just say that it needs to
> > run with a previous release as Dom0.
> 
> How about:
>   - The release must boot successfully as Xen DomU with releases
>     providing a functional, supported Xen Dom0 and cloud providers
>     utilizing Xen. This does not include any issues limited to the
>     release functioning as Xen Dom0.

I like that more, though it sort of commits us to every two-bit 'cloud
provider' in the world. Though the only answer to that is to use very
vague language like 'widely used' or to specify particular cloud
services, which isn't very future-proof.
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