Hello,
I filed another change proposal, which is related to the original one:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OptimizeSquashFSOnDVDByRemovingEXT...
The new proposal does not change compression parameters of the SquashFS
image on DVD.
On 18/09/2020 12:54, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 09:31:59AM +0200, Bohdan Khomutskyi wrote:
> Hello Zbyszek,
>
>> You haven't really answered the "why" part: why is it so important
to
> save 50MB? And why is the effect on QA less important?
>
> From my perspective, the storage on the installation medium should
> be efficiently used. Even though the optimization is just 50MiB, it
> is an optimization.
>
> And this optimization is transparent in terms of content.
>
>> And why is the effect on QA less important?
> The QA team is only one group of users. We should rather orient at
> end users, and the way those users install Fedora.
Sorry, but that argument is not convincing. *Everything* we do has to
strike a balance. Making testing harder or slower also has an impact
on *users* — the stuff that they get will be less well tested.
Zbyszek
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Bohdan Khomutskyi
Software Engineer
Red Hat