[criteria update] Update of uncategorized package groups criterion

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Sep 6 17:08:01 UTC 2012


On 2012-09-06 6:54, Kamil Paral wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we should amend the beta criterion:
>>
>> 'At the package installation stage, the install should show no
>> uncategorized package groups'
>>
>> There should be something like 'Software selection spoke' instead of
>> 'package installation stage', also I'm not sure if 'uncategorized
>> package groups' makes sense. I would propose to change it to:
>>
>> 'At the software selection spoke, there mustn't be any uncategorized
>> package groups'
>>
>> Another option is to remove this criterion. The software selection 
>> is
>> changed in new ui and I'm not sure if this criterion is still
>> applicable.
>
> First of all, I don't like the word 'spoke'. I know anaconda
> developers use it internally, but people from outside won't have any
> idea what it means. We need a better term.
>
> Secondly, it seems this criterion is no longer needed at all. In old
> Anaconda there used to be categories of software and this was to make
> sure every software is categorized (not in some kind of Other
> category). Now we have some add-ons, but without categories. So I
> don't think this criterion really applies anymore.
>
> Of course we can consider whether we need to add a new one, something
> similar but not the same (I don't see anything like it at the 
> moment).
> But this one should be deleted in any case, in my opinion.

That sounds fairly reasonable to me. I guess we need to consider what 
could 'break' about the list of groups displayed on the software 
selection screen in newUI.
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