On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:30:44 -0400
Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
As promised at yesterday's Go/No-Go meeting, I'm starting a
discussion
on the Alpha criterion that states: "The default desktop background
must be different from that of the two previous stable releases."
As I understand it, the intent is essentially that no one booting a
Fedora pre-release should infer that it is a stable release and that
this should be obvious from the desktop background.
I don't even think the desktop background is all that visible anymore,
especially on some desktops (like workstation/gnome). People there tend
to use full screen apps and never even see the wallpaper.
That also seems like a pretty poor way to tell what release you are
running.
I suppose this makes some sense for Live media (particularly when
burned to a USB stick that may not have a label). That being said, I
do not agree that this should be a *blocking* issue for release.
I agree. I think we should remove this critera from the alpha critera.
...snip...
I'd like to propose that we remove this as a strict blocking
criterion
and instead introduce a new category of criteria for automatic freeze
-exceptions of which this could be a part. Essentially, up to the
moment that an RC is declared gold, any changes made to support an
automatic freeze-exception must be pulled in.
The idea would be that these auto-FEs should still be part of the
validation runs, but not blocking for the release. Does this seem like
a reasonable middle-ground?
I don't think we should do this, it sounds overcomplex. How about we
just let new backgrounds propose as FE's and get pulled in if we feel
they should be.
kevin