On Wed, 2023-06-28 at 12:58 +0200, Ondřej Budai wrote: > Hi Adam and Ben! > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 10:14 PM Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > In terms of testing: we already test the existing toolchain pretty > > effectively in practice. openQA builds Workstation and KDE live images > > with every relevant critical path update. If an update breaks live > > image creation, we find out about it right away, and the update is > > gated. > > > > Can you elaborate the testing setup more? Does openQA somehow call > livemedia-creator locally, or does it just offload the task to koji? If the > latter is true, that this shouldn't be an issue. The former option is more > tricky, we would have to somehow adjust openQA to use a different tool.
It mimics what Koji does: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/blob/main/f/tests/_live_build.pm If this Change goes through, I will change the openQA test appropriately. > > > > In terms of file formats: is toml really that much better known or > > better than kickstart, for an audience of Fedora devs, for the purpose > > of building a live image? Especially now we (finally) got the livesys > > stuff out of the kickstarts and they're mostly pretty simple? As a > > specific nitpick, the documentation on the Image Builder format makes > > it clear that it supports comps groups, but it's less clear if it > > supports comps *environment* groups. It really needs to do so to > > maintain parity with livemedia-creator; we don't want to have to define > > all the environment groups twice (once in comps, once in imagebuilder > > TOML files). If it does support this, it should be made clear in the > > docs. > > > > Yes, it does support environment groups. > > Regarding kickstarts vs. blueprint (TOML): From my point of view, > kickstarts are a specific thing to the "Fedora ecosystem", whereas TOML is > widely used also in other areas (Go/Rust), thus there is a bigger ecosystem > of tooling for it. I would also like to introduce JSONSchema (conversion > between JSON and TOML is mostly lossless) for blueprints, which would allow > e.g. linting of blueprints. Yet another step in making the tooling more > user-friendly. Anyway, I don't want to spend much time on this, it feels > like this is more a matter of taste. I agree it's a matter of taste, but that was kinda my point: switching from ks to toml is advertised as a "benefit" of the Change, but to me it feels like a very small one if it is one at all. (we do have a checker for kickstart files, ksvalidator, btw). It's part of the overall point that this Change doesn't really seem to constitute a huge improvement, therefore it should be set a high bar for not introducing any *disadvantages* compared to the previous approach. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @ad...@fosstodon.org https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
