Change of release level of Mediakit ISO Size test case

Petr Schindler pschindl at redhat.com
Mon Feb 13 13:32:55 UTC 2012


OK, it looks like discussion ended, so I've moved [1] to beta release
level in [2]

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Mediakit_ISO_Size
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_17_Install_Results_Template

On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 08:35 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 08:47 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 11:05 -0500, Petr Schindler wrote:
> > >
> > >> > We made this Beta not Alpha in the criteria on purpose, specifically
> > >> > because we don't think it's a significant enough problem if the lives
> > >> > are over-size at Alpha stage. It *may* be worth requiring at least
> > >> > the
> > >> > DVD to meet size requirements at Alpha size, although even if it's
> > >> > over,
> > >> > you can still test it in a VM or with a USB stick. I definitely think
> > >> > we
> > >> > shouldn't make the live sizes mandatory at Alpha.
> > >>
> > >> Here I don't know. I test in pre-alpha phase only on my VMs. When I
> > >> want to boot on bare metal, I use USB stick. But it's truth that
> > >> nothing new should be added after alpha. So the size of images should
> > >> be quite the same then or not? Still I think it could be in beta.
> > >
> > > When we talk about 'nothing being added' after Alpha we're really
> > > talking about major features. The package sets on the media can, and do,
> > > change. It doesn't happen so much lately, but it's been the case in the
> > > past that the Alpha live images were, say, 800MB, because no-one had yet
> > > trimmed the package set down to keep them under a CD in size. Then they
> > > did get properly trimmed down for Beta or Final. We don't want to block
> > > the Alpha if this happens.
> > 
> > Yes this has been discussed multiple times but ... do we really still
> > care about "omg it does not fit on a CD" ?
> > I mean it is 2012 ...
> 
> It's off-topic for this thread, and it's for the spins to decide for
> themselves.
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