Release Criteria

[John Summerfield]

Allen Kistler wrote:
> was: Shouldn't the fact that beagle doesn't work with firefox
>     be a release blocker?
> 
> Brian Pepple wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 09:13 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477639
>>
>> No, I don't believe that meets the release blocker criteria.
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria
> 
> So in a slightly different direction...
> 
> All the release criteria on the referenced page are about booting and 
> running, which makes sense as far as it goes, but what about shutting 
> down?  Although they're mostly fixed now, there was a series of bugs 
> dealing with F11 being unable under certain conditions to shut down 
> without the use of the power button.
> 
> It's a generic enough condition, I think it should probably apply to any 
> release of any OS, maybe here with wording something like "installed 
> system MUST be able to shut down or reboot from any runlevel" and 
> perhaps with an additional "installed system SHOULD be able to change 
> between any two runlevels."
> 
> For most wikis, I'd have put the question on the Talk page, but 
> ReleaseCriteria doesn't have a Talk page.
> 
> Anyway, thoughts?
> 
I generally understand the difference between "should" and "must," but 
in these criteria I don't so how "should" us useful. How many shoulds 
does it take to make a must?





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