Release criterion proposal: "Package sets" (Alpha and Beta)

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 13:52 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 09:25 -0700, Mike Ruckman wrote:
> 
> > Just to sum it up for people, the proposal overall is:
> > 
> >  - Reword the alpha criterion [0]
> >  - add a Beta criterion (with the latest extension) [1]
> >  - add a net-install Final criterion [2]
> > 
> > I don't see anything worrisome about any of these changes. Gives 
> > us good, well defined areas we know we want covered.
> 
> So, sigh, we're apparently getting flavor network install images 
> again for F22, along with a generic network install image. So let me 
> refine this *again*:
> 
> Alpha: "When installing with a release-blocking dedicated installer 
> image, the installer must be able to install the default package 
> set." (no change)
> 
> Beta 1: "When installing with a dedicated installer image for a 
> specific Fedora flavor, the default package set must be the correct 
> set for that flavor."
> 
> Beta 2: "When installing with the generic network install image, 
> selecting a package set other than the default must work."
> 
> Final: "When installing with the generic network install image with 
> no update repositories enabled, the installer must be able to 
> install each of the release-blocking desktops, as well as the 
> minimal package set."
> 
> that commits us to a moderate amount of testing, and if we're 
> worried about that we could for e.g. consider limiting the 
> 'guarantee' for the generic netinst image to just minimal.
> 
> Thoughts? Hope I don't have to revise this any further :)

Hum, let me try one more change: if we have official Flavor netinsts, 
we don't really need to *require* the generic one to work for the 
flavors. KDE is kind of a question, but I think to try and reduce the 
workload maybe we should just require the generic netinst to work for 
minimal. So replace the Final proposal above with:

Final: "When installing with the generic network install image with no 
update repositories enabled, the installer must be able to install the
minimal package set."
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