New criterion for Memory test

Petr Schindler pschindl at redhat.com
Thu Feb 16 13:53:19 UTC 2012


Because there was no objections, I've added new final criterion to [1].

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Final_Release_Criteria

On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 05:28 -0500, Petr Schindler wrote:
> > From: "Adam Williamson" <awilliam at redhat.com>
> > To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:36:38 AM
> > Subject: Re: New criterion for Memory test
> > 
> > On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 11:23 -0500, Petr Schindler wrote:
> > > I propose new final criterion:
> > > 
> > > "The installer must be able to run memory test."
> > > 
> > > This feature is very useful and should work. We have test case for
> > > this yet [1]. I'd move it to final release level.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Memtest86
> > 
> > Well, it's not actually the installer. memtestx86 is a completely
> > standalone thing which we just put on the images, with a boot menu
> > option: if you pick it, nothing Fedora-ish at all actually runs.
> > 
> > Perhaps:
> > 
> > "All release media must include a standalone memory test utility. A
> > boot
> > menu option to launch this utility must be present and must work
> > correctly."
> 
> I agree with that, my fault. So I propose new final criterion:
> 
> "All release media must include a standalone memory test utility. A boot menu option to launch this utility must be present and must work correctly."
> 
> Thanks Adam for your feedback.
> 
> Petr Schindler




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