New criterion for Checksum

[Petr Schindler]

> 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 1:51:16 AM
> Subject: Re: New criterion for Checksum
> 
> On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 18:02 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> > Petr Schindler <pschindl <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > > I propose new final criterion:
> > > 
> > > "There must be published correct checksum for each ISO media.
> > > Also if there is
> > embedded checksum on ISO
> > > media, it must be correct."
> > > 
> > > I think we should check this. We have already test case [1]. I
> > > propose to
> > change release level for this test
> > > case to final.
> > > 
> > > [1]
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Mediakit_ISO_Checksums
> > 
> > I think that having a published correct checksum for each ISO
> > should be Alpha
> > level. If the ISO can't be verified, then the results of any other
> > testing on it
> > are suspect. Also, publishing the correct checksums can be done
> > without altering
> > the ISOs themselves, so it's easy to ensure that this test passes.
> > Getting the
> > embedded checksum correct is less important since an independent
> > check is
> > possible.
> 
> Yeah, I did think that too. It seems like the kind of thing that
> should
> always be correct.

OK, so test case should stay in alpha and new criterion should be in alpha too. I propose to drop the part about embedded checksum (that would be only additional check) and new criterion should be:

"A correct checksum must be published for each official release image."

The second possibility is to have two criteria, first in alpha and second in beta. In beta, there would be included embedded checksum.

I think that first option is better.