Release critiera proposal: reword the EFI criterion and, for F17, move it to Alpha

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Sep 8 01:13:07 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 16:28 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:

> So people were generally in favour of taking EFI bugs as release
> blockers, but no-one really expressed a preference as to which of these
> two approaches would be best. I think I prefer the second one, so I'll
> go ahead and put that in place unless anyone has real preference for the
> first approach, or wants to propose an alternative approach. Again, the
> proposal boils down to:
> 
> amend Alpha criterion:
> 
> "The installer must boot (if appropriate) and run on all primary
> architectures from default live image, DVD, and boot.iso install media"
> 
> to read:
> 
> "The installer must boot (if appropriate) and run on all primary
> architectures, with all system firmware types that are common on those
> architectures, from default live image, DVD, and boot.iso install media"
> 
> if everyone's good with that, I'll go ahead and put it in place soon.
> thanks!

As there were no objections, I've gone ahead and done this by creating
the F17 Alpha and Beta criteria pages, adjusting the Alpha criterion as
proposed, and dropping the Beta EFI criterion. Thanks!
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