Release criteria proposal: USB-written images

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 17:29 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hey, folks. During F17 cycle we added some validation tests for writing
> images to USB, but we don't have explicit criteria covering this. I'm
> proposing two new criteria for this, and a minor adjustment to an
> existing criterion.
> 
> Alpha:
> 
> Change existing criterion:
> 
> * The installer must boot (if appropriate) and run on all primary
> architectures, with all system firmware types that are common on those
> architectures, from default live image, DVD, and boot.iso install media
> 
> To:
> 
> * The installer must boot (if appropriate) and run on all primary
> architectures, with all system firmware types that are common on those
> architectures, from default live image, DVD, and boot.iso install media
> when written to an optical disc
> 
> Add new criterion:
> 
> * The installer must boot (if appropriate) and run on all primary
> architectures, with all system firmware types that are common on those
> architectures, from default live image, DVD, and boot.iso install media
> when written to a USB stick with at least one of the
> [[How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB|officially supported methods]]
> 
> Beta:
> 
> Add new criterion:
> 
> * The installer must boot (if appropriate) and run on all primary
> architectures, with all system firmware types that are common on those
> architectures, from default live image, DVD, and boot.iso install media
> when written to a USB stick with any of the
> [[How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB|officially supported methods]]
> 
> The idea here is that at Alpha stage it must be possible to create a
> working USB stick _somehow_, and at Beta stage, all methods should be
> working. We could push the second criterion out to Final, I guess, but
> to me, this is becoming pretty core functionality. Seems like writing
> images to a stick is as common or more common than using actual media
> nowadays.
> 
> Comments? Thanks!

As two people voted for it, patch. Beta proposal is unchanged. For
Alpha, instead of adding a new criterion, the existing criterion is
simply modified to:

* The installer must boot (if appropriate) and run on all primary
architectures, with all system firmware types that are common on those
architectures, from default live image, DVD, and boot.iso install media
when written to an optical disc and when written to a USB stick with at
least one of the [[How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB|officially supported
methods]]

It's a bit of an ugly long sentence, but I can't see a way to contract
it without losing significance, and the two people who commented
preferred one really long criterion to two quite long ones.
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Adam Williamson
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