Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

[Kam Leo]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/26/2011 02:46 AM, Kam Leo wrote:
>> After reading the bug report I can only shake my head.
>>
>> 1. The problem was known at least a month before the release date.
>
> Yes.  As noted in the bug report,  a change in the installer and related
> components are going in for Fedora 16 but the amount of change was
> considered too disruptive by the installer team to risk pushing in a
> change just a month before release.  Note that Fedora 15 development is
> already on a code freeze at that time and only important and confined
> bug fixes are supposed to be pushed in at that point.  This
> bug fix won't be confined and requires significant changes in many
> components.  Those are very risky to push through one month before the
> release in a installer.
>
>> 2. QA feels that they're powerless to flag this problem as a show stopper.
>
> QA works against a well documented and publicized release criteria that
> gets frequent updates via test list
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Final_Release_Criteria

Strange that being able to install on a system with minimum hardware
requirements is not part of the criteria. Or is it covered in item 5
and the team interprets it differently?

> In particular,  the installer in Fedora 14 already required more memory
> in some cases and this isn't considered a show stopper bug to block the
> release as per the release criteria.

There is nothing wrong with changing minimum hardware requirements. I
just would like Fedora publicize the requirements earlier so I don't
waste time on a the release is not compatible with my equipment.

>> 3. Release Notes have long lead times and are no longer suitable for
>> flagging important last minute changes in system requirements.
>
> Fedora doesn't rely on only the release notes.  There are other places
> including the common bugs page which is linked from the release
> announcement and other prominent places.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs#Installation_requires_more_memory

It seems that the requirements were posted everywhere except the
Release Notes and, until today, the home page.

> Rahul
>
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