Introduction

2018-09-20 Thread Ludovic Hirlimann
Hi, My name is Ludovic. Paul-Muadib on freenode. I've been using OSS since 2000ish. I'm emplyed by mozilla as root , before that I was the QA lead for Thunderbird and for Joost a video startup company. I've used linux on and off since 1996 (kernel 1.3.88) with slackware/Debian/RHEL/CentOS - I've al

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:36 PM Harold Dost wrote: > > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Similar to another > blocker that was being proposed, maybe it's not something that _must_ be > tested, but if it's known to be broken that it should block a final. Maybe > I'm missing so

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Felix Miata
Harold Dost composed on 2018-09-20 22:35 (UTC-0400): > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Similar to another > blocker that was being proposed, maybe it's not something that _must_ be > tested, but if it's known to be broken that it should block a final. +1 -- "Wisdom is suprem

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Harold Dost
Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Similar to another blocker that was being proposed, maybe it's not something that _must_ be tested, but if it's known to be broken that it should block a final. Maybe I'm missing something, but unless the image is over the capacity of a DVD, what

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/21/18 9:47 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 6:08 PM Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 9/21/18 7:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, breaking them, or other r

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 6:08 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 9/21/18 7:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > >> That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, > >> breaking them, or other random failures. When a flash drive dies,

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 7:45 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:51 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: That is what I meant about installing from CD. I take the ISO image and burn it to CD. If that is what is proposed to still be included, then I can work with it. The size of the Workstation liv

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/21/18 7:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, >> breaking them, or other random failures. When a flash drive dies, it's >> gone, very difficult to recover if even possible. I w

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:34 PM Anderson, Charles R wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to > > boot USB media natively. They can boot some USB-based and most IDE-based > > CD/DVD drives. I'

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:51 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > That is what I meant about installing from CD. I take the ISO image and > burn it to CD. If that is what is proposed to still be included, then I > can work with it. The size of the Workstation live ISO exceeds what will fit on a CD.

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, > breaking them, or other random failures. When a flash drive dies, it's > gone, very difficult to recover if even possible. I would not recommend > a flash drive (or DVD) al

Re: Can Fedora move away from blue backgrounds?

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:46 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > The evidence is finally in on how blue light destroys the retina. > > https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28254-8 > > (Nature only publishes peer reviewed material.) The research is saying blue light enhances age related macular d

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Okay, I see. I always burn the ISOs to DVD and do bare metal installs from DVD; so I am testing this criteria every time I install a new drop for testing. Well, I have no plans to change my install procedure. I don't test every drop, and so far I wait to start testing until the new version is

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 5:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 16:10 -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: Consider cost please. DVDs are a few cents each. From what I've seen 16 Gb is the smallest thumb drive available now and they are fading fast. Even in lot quantity they are between $6 an

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 16:42 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 9/20/18 4:25 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > I burn CDs regularly for my wife. I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce > > > system with k3b. See bug 1583845. I have to

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 16:10 -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > Consider cost please. DVDs are a few cents each. From what I've seen 16 > Gb is the smallest thumb drive available now and they are fading fast. > Even in lot quantity they are between $6 an d $10 each. > > I know they can be reus

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Anderson, Charles R
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 05:13:42PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 9/20/18 5:05 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:48:25PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > > On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 5:16 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:46:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I suppose I can read up how to make a 'LiveCD' on usb, and see if it boots! Please try the Fedora Media Writer tool. Will. That is something else you would have to change to 'Live

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/20/18 1:35 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:23:03PM -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native USB media and need CD/DVD emulation over USB to work. I don't think the time is yet ripe to jettison op

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 4:06 PM Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:42:13PM +0200, Julen Landa Alustiza wrote: > >I keep an optical driver in a box under the desk, it might be useful > >someday. > >I haven't used it for years. So yeah, it's time to clean the box > > So, doe

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:46:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I suppose I can read up how to make a 'LiveCD' on usb, and see if it boots! Please try the Fedora Media Writer tool. > That is something else you would have to change to 'LiveUSB'. We've called our images just "Live" since... as

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 5:05 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:48:25PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable t

Re: PXE boot installs

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 5:02 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: This is getting off-topic, so I changed the subject.  If we continue this discussion much more, it should migrate to the users list. On 9/20/18 1:57 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 4:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 1:48 PM, Robert Moskowitz

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:42:13PM +0200, Julen Landa Alustiza wrote: >I keep an optical driver in a box under the desk, it might be useful >someday. >I haven't used it for years. So yeah, it's time to clean the box So, does this mean the images can can no longer be made to boot from o

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Anderson, Charles R
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:48:25PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to > > > boot USB media natively. They

Re: PXE boot installs

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
This is getting off-topic, so I changed the subject. If we continue this discussion much more, it should migrate to the users list. On 9/20/18 1:57 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 4:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 1:48 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: PXE boot  Set up a PXE server?

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 1:48 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to boot USB media natively. They

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 1:50 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: That is what I meant about installing from CD.  I take the ISO image and burn it to CD.  If that is what is proposed to still be included, then I can work with it. This is only about testing, no changes to the release artifacts in any way. You will

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:42:50PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>I burn CDs regularly for my wife.  I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce > >>system with k3b. See bug 1583845.  I have to use my F24 old system. > >>Can't burn DVDs (

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:45 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 1:40 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: I'm not sure what FUD you've read to believe that, but flash drives from reputable brands are very hard and last more than a few times writing to them. That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance o

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 1:48 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to boot USB media natively. They can boot some USB-based and most IDE-base

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Felix Miata
Matthew Miller composed on 2018-09-20 14:16 (UTC-0400): > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> Justification: >> http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ > More seriously: I don't think there are any sys

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 1:29 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 9/20/18 12:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 12:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip >> CDs and DVDs ;-) > > There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native > USB media and need CD/DVD

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 1:42 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 4:25 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I burn CDs regularly for my wife.  I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce system with k3b. See bug 1583845.  I have to use my F24 old system. Can't bu

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to boot USB media natively. They can boot some USB-based and most IDE-based CD/DVD drives. I'd love to replace them w

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:30 PM, Alessio Ciregia wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 10:26 PM Matthew Miller mailto:mat...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I burn CDs regularly for my wife.  I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce > system with k3

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 1:40 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: I'm not sure what FUD you've read to believe that, but flash drives from reputable brands are very hard and last more than a few times writing to them. That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, breaking them, or other ra

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:25 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I burn CDs regularly for my wife.  I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce system with k3b. See bug 1583845.  I have to use my F24 old system. Can't burn DVDs (for backups of video lectures) eit

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 1:29 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 9/20/18 12:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 12:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and DVDs ;-) There are still some systems out

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:23 PM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: On 9/20/18 4:03 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:30:19PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and DVDs ;-) There are still some systems out there that won't

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 9/20/18 3:23 PM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: We buy used, manufacturer refurbished PCs for the most part to keep costs down. They are generally 5 years old when purchased and they get used for another 5 or more years. They run Fedora and the applications we use just fine. So now it sounds l

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:23:03PM -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > >>There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native > >>USB media and need CD/DVD emulation over USB to work. I don't think > >>the time is yet ripe to jettison optical media. Soon, but not just yet. > >How man

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Anderson, Charles R
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: > Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to > boot USB media natively. They can boot some USB-based and most IDE-based > CD/DVD drives. I'd love to replace them with newer systems but am unable > to unless th

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Alessio Ciregia
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 10:26 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > I burn CDs regularly for my wife. I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce > > system with k3b. See bug 1583845. I have to use my F24 old system. > > Can't burn DVDs (for backups

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/20/18 12:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/20/18 12:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >>> +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip >>> CDs and DVDs ;-) >> >> There are still some systems out there that won't boot off n

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I burn CDs regularly for my wife.  I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce > system with k3b. See bug 1583845.  I have to use my F24 old system. > Can't burn DVDs (for backups of video lectures) either. Burning DVDs is a completely separa

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/20/18 4:03 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:30:19PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and DVDs ;-) There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native USB media and need CD/DVD emulation

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 1:49 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Justification: http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ I installed F28 with a netinstall CD. I burn CDs regularly for my wife.  I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce system with k3b. See bug

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:01:40PM -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > >More seriously: I don't think there are any systems in the audiences > >targeted by our release-blocking deliverables which are not better served > >by booting from USB media. > I maintain a group of PCs. I like to always lea

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 1:01 PM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: I maintain a group of PCs. I like to always leave a copy of the install media with each PC in case it's needed. DVDs are very much cheaper than thumb drives. Please don't make me spend my budget when there is no need to. There is nothing stoppi

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Consider cost please. DVDs are a few cents each. From what I've seen 16 Gb is the smallest thumb drive available now and they are fading fast. Even in lot quantity they are between $6 an d $10 each. I know they can be reused a few times before they start having retention problems, but there is

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:30:19PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: > > +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip > > CDs and DVDs ;-) > There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native > USB media and need CD/DVD emulation over USB to work. I don't think > t

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/20/18 2:16 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: Justification: http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ More seriously: I don't think there are any systems in the audiences

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 12:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and DVDs ;-) There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native USB media and need CD/DVD emulation over USB to

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip > CDs and DVDs ;-) There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native USB media and need CD/DVD emulation over USB to work. I don't think the time is yet ripe

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
+1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and DVDs ;-) On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Matthew Miller > wrote: >> Justification: >> http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-ha

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > Justification: > http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ +1 to dropping the optical media criterion -- Chris Murphy ___ test m

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Julen Landa Alustiza
I keep an optical driver in a box under the desk, it might be useful someday. I haven't used it for years. So yeah, it's time to clean the box El jue., 20 sept. 2018 20:26, Richard Shaw escribió: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:49 PM Matthew Miller > wrote: > >> Justification: >> http://newsthump

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:49 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > Justification: > http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ Ouch, that stings just a little :) But yeah, I have burned an install disk in years. Thanks, Richard

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > Justification: > http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ More seriously: I don't think there are any systems in the audiences targeted by our release-blocking deliverab

proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
Justification: http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le

Re: Blocking criteria proposal for F30+: Printing

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> There was a bug[1] filed recently that indicated that printing was >> broken on certain printers. As a result of that discussion, it became >> apparent that there was no criteria for printing to work at all, which >> seems like an oversigh

Re: Blocking criteria proposal for F30+: Printing

2018-09-20 Thread Peter Robinson
> There was a bug[1] filed recently that indicated that printing was > broken on certain printers. As a result of that discussion, it became > apparent that there was no criteria for printing to work at all, which > seems like an oversight. > > I discussed this briefly with Matthias Clasen this mor

Can Fedora move away from blue backgrounds?

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
The evidence is finally in on how blue light destroys the retina. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28254-8 (Nature only publishes peer reviewed material.) A popular site report on this can be seen at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/we-finally-know-why-blue-light-is-so

Re: Tracer does not seem to work,..

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just tested with beta 1.5 and maybe it is working.  See the below: On 9/18/18 7:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/19/18 5:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So far tracer has not reported a need to restart anything.  I thought there were a couple updates that it should have required restarting. Can

Re: Blocking criteria proposal for F30+: Printing

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 7:50 AM Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 9:47 AM Ben Cotton wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:33 AM Stephen Gallagher > wrote: > > > > > > I'd like to propose that we add the following criteria to Beta for > Fedora 30+: > > > * Printing must work o

Re: Blocking criteria proposal for F30+: Printing

2018-09-20 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 9:47 AM Ben Cotton wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:33 AM Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > > I'd like to propose that we add the following criteria to Beta for Fedora > > 30+: > > * Printing must work on at least one printer available to Fedora QA. > > "Work" is defined

Re: Blocking criteria proposal for F30+: Printing

2018-09-20 Thread Ben Cotton
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:33 AM Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > I'd like to propose that we add the following criteria to Beta for Fedora 30+: > * Printing must work on at least one printer available to Fedora QA. > "Work" is defined as the output from the device matching a preview > shown on the GNO

Re: Are non-sse2 CPUs officially dead on F29?

2018-09-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Felix Miata wrote: > Non-sse2 won't work on openSUSE Tumbleweed, but does on Debian next > (10/Buster). I have a 28 attempting to dnf upgrade to 29, but I'm seeing a > ton of entries filling up /var/lib/systemd/coredump, 197 files and still > counting. :-( -- Pretty much yes, https://fedoraproje

Re: Blocking criteria proposal for F30+: Printing

2018-09-20 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:40 AM Stephen Gallagher wrote: > I'd like to propose that we add the following criteria to Beta for Fedora > 30+: > * Printing must work on at least one printer available to Fedora QA. > > and this to Final for Fedora 30+: > * Printing must work on at least one printer

Blocking criteria proposal for F30+: Printing

2018-09-20 Thread Stephen Gallagher
There was a bug[1] filed recently that indicated that printing was broken on certain printers. As a result of that discussion, it became apparent that there was no criteria for printing to work at all, which seems like an oversight. I discussed this briefly with Matthias Clasen this morning and he

Re: Blocking criteria proposal for F30+: Printing

2018-09-20 Thread Petr Šabata
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:33:05AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > There was a bug[1] filed recently that indicated that printing was > broken on certain printers. As a result of that discussion, it became > apparent that there was no criteria for printing to work at all, which > seems like an ov

Re: Fedora 29 Beta status: RC4 incoming

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
The process that's running is gnome-software. Have a Great Day! Pat (tablepc) On 9/19/18 11:59 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/19/18 5:06 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: Back on the evening of 09/17 I downloaded the Workstation Live beta 1.3 ISO, and ran the check sum (ok), and

Fedora 29 Beta 1.5 compose check report

2018-09-20 Thread Fedora compose checker
No missing expected images. Failed openQA tests: 2/132 (x86_64), 1/24 (i386), 1/2 (arm) ID: 283213 Test: x86_64 KDE-live-iso desktop_notifications_postinstall URL: https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/283213 ID: 283219 Test: arm Minimal-raw_xz-raw.xz install_arm_image_deployment_uplo

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 29 Candidate Beta-1.5 Available Now!

2018-09-20 Thread Sinny Kumari
Cloud Base and Atomic Host AMIs are available to test for various regions. Cloud Base AMIs are here: Fedora-Cloud-Base-29_Beta-1.5.x86_64 ap-northeast-1 ami-0a24cb0b129391f91 hvm standard Fedora-Cloud-Base-29_Beta-1.5.x86_64 ap-northeast-2 ami-025a265da1a333635 hvm standard Fedora-Cloud-Base