Release criteria: virtualization tweak

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 19:42 +0100, agraham wrote:

> > It's intentionally ambiguous: I try to write the criteria as generically
> > as possible. This ensures we don't have to rewrite them just because we
> > change tack. (Remember, our 'preferred virt technology' was Xen not so
> > long ago; if we'd had hardcoded criteria that stated 'Xen' at that
> > point, we'd have had to rewrite them to say 'KVM'). I think it's just
> > more correct, too: our intent is not that 'KVM should work', really, our
> > intent really is 'whatever Fedora currently reckons is The Good Stuff
> > should work'. Same reason the criteria say 'the installer' and not
> > 'anaconda', and 'refer generically to 'release-blocking desktops', not
> > 'GNOME and KDE'.
> 
> I fully understand where you are coming from, when it comes to policy 
> statements, they usually refer to now and possibly the past, but not 
> future. because policies usually needs to change as you state.

sure, but it certainly helps to write them in such a way that they'll
need to change as little as possible. it's already enough work
maintaining the criteria :/
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