Draft terminal application test case

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 07/31/2013 05:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 17:28 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On 07/30/2013 10:22 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> Proposing a new draft release validation test case:
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_desktop_terminal
>>>
>>> this is a fairly simple test case that just checks that a terminal
>>> application works in a desktop environment. It would be added to the
>>> desktop matrix along with the browser test case, to cover the lack of a
>>> test case to enforce the terminal part of the Alpha criterion "It must
>>> be possible to run the default web browser and a terminal application
>>> from all release-blocking desktop environments."
>>>
>>> Comments, improvements, suggestions etc welcome as always! As this is
>>> pretty straightforward I'm planning to put it into production pretty
>>> soon if there's no negative feedback.
>> Stuff this in beta not alpha
>>
>> Desktop Application testing do not belong in alpha...
> That's determined by the release criterion, not the test case. If you
> want to propose moving the criterion from Alpha to Beta, start a
> separate thread for that. But personally I'd prefer it to stay at Alpha;
> it does make sense to require the two most crucial apps for any desktop
> to work at Alpha.

How do you define a terminal as a crucial app for any desktop?

Let alone at alpha when the user can always boot into the multi-user 
target for a terminal and <ctrl><alt>F2?

JBG