[criteria update] Rescue mode

[Joe Wulf]

Question:  Is there a 'deferred' state these kinds of issues can be moved to?
That might be an acceptable middle-ground so that issues are maintained, yet rational is provided for why they are not worked in this release.

Just a thought.

-Joe




>________________________________
> From: Petr Schindler <pschindl at redhat.com>
>To: test at lists.fedoraproject.org 
>Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 10:14 AM
>Subject: Re: [criteria update] Rescue mode
> 
>On Pá, 2012-07-27 at 08:53 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Petr Schindler <pschindl at redhat.com> said:
>> > Because of changes in new anaconda [1] and after short discussion with
>> > Chris Lumens, I propose to remove this beta criterion [2]:
>> > 
>> > 'The rescue mode of the installer must be able to detect and mount
>> > (read-write and read-only) LVM, encrypted, and RAID (BIOS, hardware, and
>> > software) installations'
>> > 
>> > Reason (according to Chris): There's been no work done on rescue mode
>> > and it is highly unlikely that it does anything at all right now.
>> 
>> You've proposed removing rescue mode criteria from both alpha and beta;
>> is there going to be any requirement for a functional rescue mode for
>> this release?  That's a pretty critical thing to have completely missing
>> from a release; things that occasionally happen such as a broken boot
>> loader would render an install virtually unrecoverable for many users.
>
>It is about discussion to accept this change. If there will be lot of
>opinions against this change, we will let it be as it is and anaconda
>will have to make their best to bring rescue mod. We can also change
>this criterion. It's on discussion. Note that those changes are
>hopefully only for F18. In F19 there should be everything back.
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