We should block on them until we stop supporting them.
But does not wks live size impact on ram usage? 4.7GB may be way too much on this case
On September 17, 2019 8:37:50 PM GMT+02:00, Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Tue, 2019-09-17 at 15:54 +0200, Kamil Paral wrote:
> We currently have the following Beta criterion:
> "The release-blocking images must meet current size requirements."
[1]
>
> The latest "Workstation image is oversized" bug [2] showed that we
don't
> consider this requirement to be that critical. People mostly agreed
that
> having a slightly oversized image at Beta is no big deal. And there's
much
> truth to it. The limits were critical when we used optical media, but
with
> flash drives, there is always an option to use a larger one.
>
> Considering this, I believe it makes sense to move the current
criterion
> from Beta to Final.
>
> There are other options to handle this, like giving the image size
e.g. 10%
> headroom during Beta. We can do this, but the more I think about it,
the
> less value I see in it. If the image was 11% over size, would it
really
> matter? I think we actually don't care image image size restrictions
before
> Final release at all. For Final release, sure, some groups want to
fit X GB
> flash drives, and some groups want to fit onto a DVD disc. But for
Beta we
> can always test it just fine, regardless the size (and no images are
> release blocking for optical media for Beta).
> Thoughts?
We could consider still enforcing sizes which clearly relate to optical
media (so, basically, 700MB and 4.7GB sizes).
Julen Landa Alustiza <jlanda(a)fedoraproject.org>