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| == Beta Objectives ==
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| The objectives of the Beta release are to:
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| # Publicly release installable media versions of a [[Feature_Freeze_Policy|code complete]] test release: Beta is the last widely co-ordinated test release point in any given release cycle
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| # Finish testing [[Releases/19/FeatureList| Fedora 19 Features]]
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| # Identify as many [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=f19blocker&hide_resolved=1| F19Blocker] bugs as possible
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| == Beta Release Requirements ==
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| {{Template:Release_criteria_preamble|prerelease=Beta}}
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| Release Requirements:
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| # All [[Fedora 19 Alpha Release Criteria]] must be met
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| # All bugs blocking the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=f19beta&hide_resolved=1 Beta tracker] must be [[BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow#CLOSED|CLOSED]]
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| # The network installation image, DVD image, and live images for release-blocking desktops must meet current size requirements
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| # The installer must boot (if appropriate) and run on all primary architectures, with all system firmware types that are common on those architectures, from default live image, DVD, and boot.iso install media when written to a USB stick with '''any''' of the [[How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB|officially supported methods]]
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| # The installer must be able to use the HTTP, FTP and either NFS or NFSISO remote package source options
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| # It must be possible to install by booting the installation kernel directly, including via PXE, and correctly specifying a remote source for the installer itself, using whichever protocols are required to work for package retrieval at the current phase (Alpha, Beta, Final). This must work if the remote source is not a complete repository but contains only the files necessary for the installer itself to run.
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| # The installer must be able to complete an installation using the serial console interface
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| # The installer must be able to use all kickstart delivery methods
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| # The installer must be able to complete an installation using automatic partitioning to a validly-formatted disk with sufficient empty space, using the empty space and installing a bootloader but leaving the pre-existing partitions and data untouched
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| # The installer's custom partitioning mode must be capable of the following:
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| #* Creating, destroying and assigning mount points to partitions of any specified size using most commonly-used filesystem types
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| #* Creating encrypted partitions
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| #* Rejecting obviously invalid operations without crashing
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| # The installer must be able to create and install to software, hardware or BIOS RAID-0, RAID-1 or RAID-5 partitions for anything except /boot
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| # For each one of the release-blocking package sets ('minimal', and the package sets for each one of the release-blocking desktops), it must be possible to successfully complete an upgrade from a fully updated installation of the previous stable Fedora release with that package set installed, using any officially recommended upgrade mechanisms. The upgraded system must meet all release criteria.
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| # The installer must be able to successfully complete a scripted installation, using the installer's preferred scripting system, which duplicates the default interactive installation as closely as possible
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| # Any installation method or process designed to run unattended must do so (there should be no prompts requiring user intervention)
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| # The rescue mode of the installer must be able to detect and mount (read-write and read-only) LVM, encrypted, and RAID (BIOS, hardware, and software) installations
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| # When booting a system installed without a graphical environment, or when using a correct configuration setting to cause an installed system to boot in non-graphical mode, the system should provide a working login prompt without any unintended user intervention when boot is complete, and all virtual consoles intended to provide a working login prompt should do so
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| # The release must be able host virtual guest instances of the same release, using Fedora's current preferred virtualization technology
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| # The release must install and boot successfully as a virtual guest in a situation where the virtual host is running the previous stable Fedora release, using Fedora's current preferred virtualization technology
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| # In most cases, the installed system must be able to play back sound with gstreamer-based applications (see [[Blocker_Bug_FAQ#Hardware_and_local_configuration_dependent_issues|Blocker_Bug_FAQ]])
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| # No part of any release-blocking desktop's panel (or equivalent) configuration should crash or be entirely non-functional on boot of the installed system using default installation choices
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| # Automatic mounting on insertion of removable media must work in release-blocking desktops
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| # The default update manager in release-blocking desktops must not periodically check for updates when the system is booted live, but must periodically check for updates when running on an installed system
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| # All release-blocking desktops' offered mechanisms (if any) for shutting down, logging out and rebooting must work
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| == Contingency Plan ==
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| * If all of the ''Beta Release Requirements'' are not met by 20:00 UTC on Wednesday the week prior to release day, the release will be delayed by one week so that the Beta Release Requirements can be met.
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| * One week will be added to all remaining tasks in the release schedule, including the final release date.
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| * This decision will be made at the [[Engineering_Readiness_Meetings |''Go/No-Go'' Meeting]].
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| == Confirming Beta Requirements ==
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| QA has the responsibility of determining whether the criteria for the release has been met (as outlined above) through discussion with Development and Release Engineering. QA's findings will be reviewed and discussed at the [[Engineering_Readiness_Meetings |''Go/No-Go'' Meeting]].
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| == Related Pages ==
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| * [[Fedora Release Criteria]]
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| * [[Fedora 19 Alpha Release Criteria]]
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| * [[Fedora 19 Final Release Criteria]]
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| * [[Blocker Bug FAQ]]
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| * [[Packaging:Guidelines]]
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| [[Category:Release Criteria]]
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