Latest revision as of 18:21, 6 January 2020

Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

Summary

Proposal to not require testing of physical optical media before Fedora Release (GA). This doesn't mean that installation from optical media would stop working, just that the Fedora QE Team wouldn't need to actually test it before the Fedora Release. Should any member of Fedora QE Team or community find any issues regarding physical media boot, those would still be treated as any other blocker bugs. Installation from USB devices on bare metal machines and installation from virtual optical drives in virtual machines will still need to be tested.

Owner

Name: František Zatloukal
Email: fzatlouk@redhat.com

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 32
Last updated: 2020-01-06
Tracker bug: #1788219
Release notes tracker: #427

Detailed Description

We are currently blocking Fedora Release on bugs specific to installation from optical media and requiring that this method of installation is tested before Fedora Release. It seems wise to believe that only a fraction of user base installs Fedora from Optical Media rather than USB drive. New computers and laptops are usually sold without CD/DVD drives and installation from optical media takes longer and is prone to errors more compared to the installation using USB drive.

This change would affect following images for installation from physical optical media:

Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-_RELEASE_MILESTONE_.iso

Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-_RELEASE_MILESTONE_.iso

There has been a discussion on test list regarding this change in the past: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora QE Team and testers from community will have more time to test parts of Fedora that are far more visible and exposed to end users.

Fedora QE Team would have more time to add and test additional high-profile blocking deliverables (like Fedora Silverblue) in near future.

Scope

Proposal owners: Change Releases/32/ReleaseBlocking and Fedora_32_Final_Release_Criteria to indicate we no need to test physical optical media, change Validation Testing Matrices

Other developers: No involvement by other developers needed

Release engineering: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/9097 ("RelEng is not affected by this change.")

Policies and guidelines: No changes needed

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

No change for upgrades/compatibility

How To Test

Testing not applicable (this change shouldn't result in any changes to the distribution)

User Experience

Users installing Fedora from optical media might hit some bugs and might not be able to complete Fedora installation using Optical Media at all.

Dependencies

N/A

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: Revert changes to indicate we require testing of physical optical media again
Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
Blocks release? No
Blocks product? No

Documentation

N/A

Release Notes

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 == Summary ==
-Proposal to make all Fedora optical media non-blocking. This means we'd stop blocking on bugs found during the installation of Fedora from optical media (like CDs and DVDs). This doesn't mean that installation from optical media would stop working, just that the Fedora Release wouldn't be blocked on any issues that can pop up in Fedora installation using this method. Installation from USB devices will remain blocking.
+Proposal to not require testing of physical optical media before Fedora Release (GA). This doesn't mean that installation from optical media would stop working, just that the Fedora QE Team wouldn't need to actually test it before the Fedora Release. Should any member of Fedora QE Team or community find any issues regarding physical media boot, those would still be treated as any other blocker bugs. Installation from USB devices on bare metal machines and installation from virtual optical drives in virtual machines will still need to be tested.
 == Owner ==
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 CLOSED as NEXTRELEASE -> change is completed and verified and will be delivered in next release under development
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-* Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
+* Tracker bug: [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788219 #1788219]
-* Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
+* Release notes tracker: [https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes/issue/427 #427]
 == Detailed Description ==
-We are currently blocking Fedora Release on bugs specific to installation from optical media. It seems wise to believe that only a fraction of user base installs Fedora from Optical Media rather than USB drive. New computers and laptops are usually sold without CD/DVD drives and installation from optical media takes longer and is prone to errors more compared to the installation using USB drive.
+We are currently blocking Fedora Release on bugs specific to installation from optical media and requiring that this method of installation is tested before Fedora Release. It seems wise to believe that only a fraction of user base installs Fedora from Optical Media rather than USB drive. New computers and laptops are usually sold without CD/DVD drives and installation from optical media takes longer and is prone to errors more compared to the installation using USB drive.
-This change would make following images non-blocking for installation from optical media:
+This change would affect following images for installation from physical optical media:
 * <code>Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-_RELEASE_MILESTONE_.iso</code>
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 Fedora QE Team would have more time to add and test additional high-profile blocking deliverables (like Fedora Silverblue) in near future.
-Fedora Releases wouldn't be held by bugs found in corner case installation method.
 == Scope ==
-* Proposal owners: Change [[Releases/32/ReleaseBlocking]] and [[Fedora_32_Final_Release_Criteria]] to indicate we no longer block on optical media, change Validation Testing Matrices
+* Proposal owners: Change [[Releases/32/ReleaseBlocking]] and [[Fedora_32_Final_Release_Criteria]] to indicate we no need to test physical optical media, change Validation Testing Matrices
 * Other developers: No involvement by other developers needed
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 == User Experience ==
-Users installing Fedora from optical media might hit some bugs and might not be able to complete Fedora installation using Optical Media at all. Such bugs will be treated like other non blocking bugs.
+Users installing Fedora from optical media might hit some bugs and might not be able to complete Fedora installation using Optical Media at all.
 == Dependencies ==
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 == Contingency Plan ==
-* Contingency mechanism: Revert changes to indicate we block on optical media again
+* Contingency mechanism: Revert changes to indicate we require testing of physical optical media again
 * Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
 * Blocks release? No
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+[[Category:ChangeAcceptedF32]]
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