F19 Final criteria revamp

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Jun 13 16:09:56 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 12:51 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 06/13/2013 12:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > My expectation is the installer doesn't crash, the attempt leaves the disk untouched, and I get some coherent message indicating this. This expectation is reasonable, but still constitutes "support". I don't know what "doesn't support" could mean unless it applies uniformly to the entire distribution. If you ask for help with a problem related to resizing, I think you're as likely to get a response on it as anything else in Fedora.
> 
> I'm not sure who has been responsible for putting all those 
> "Official","Recommendation ( like kvm over xen ) ","Support" etc. label 
> on various components or group of components within the distribution.
> 
> We are a community driven distribution and support is nothing more then 
> best effort ( limited to community members individuals free time ) of 
> maintaining to the component we already ship and if we ship it we 
> "support" it to the that extent.

I thought it should be fairly screamingly freaking obvious that in the
context of a discussion of the release criteria, 'support' means 'block
on'. I didn't think I'd have to explain that.
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