[F24 Criteria Change] Cockpit Release Criteria

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 10/23/2015 08:41 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Thursday, October 22, 2015 02:35:11 PM Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> Recently, we discovered a bug in gnutls that caused Cockpit to
>> be unreachable by recent versions of Google Chrome. It was
>> ambiguous what the release criteria actually means, since it
>> didn't specify which browser applications were blocking. I'd like
>> to propose the following additional wording for Cockpit
>> criteria:
>> 
>> * All Cockpit functional criteria must be satisfied when the user
>> is running any of the following blocking browsers: - Mozilla
>> Firefox as shipped in the same Fedora release - Mozilla Firefox
>> of the latest available version on Windows at compose time. -
>> Mozilla Firefox of the latest available version on OSX at
>> compose time. - Google Chrome of the latest available version on
>> Fedora at compose time. - Google Chrome of the latest available
>> version on Windows at compose time. - Google Chrome of the latest
>> available version on OSX at compose time.
>> 
>> 
>> Alternately, we could decide that it's only *blocking* if the
>> above browsers work with Cockpit when the browser is running on
>> Fedora, but that is somewhat at odds with our reasoning for
>> having a management console as a web UI in the first place: that
>> it is accessible regardless of the client system.
> 
> I think that it is fine. But you need to make sure you have
> resources available to test on Windows and OS X. I wonder what can
> be done to do automated testing on the platforms to ensure things
> work. I would like to have us try and automate most if not all of
> the validation,  at least in a basic level.
> 

Stef Walter (Cockpit lead) proposed the same statement in another
reply (which I suspect is sitting in moderation). So yes, the plan is
to have that handled at the very least in the upstream automated
testing, which should presumably be reusable by Fedora QA.

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