Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-12 Thread Kamil Paral
> I think it's definitely too late for F18, in a moving-goalposts kind > of way. > But, I still would rather the criteria for F19 to be "all > kickstart commands work, unless they're documented as experimental or > unstable", and for F20 to be a step more strict. > > I think Kamil's actually done

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 11:08:27AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Initially I said that if commands need to change or go away, they should be > > marked deprecated for a release or two. Similarly, certain commands could be > > marked as Experimental (btrfs) or Unstable (autopart, say). > > Then,

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 13:11 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 07:27:58AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > > Which brings me to another point. In kickstart there are commands which > > use a functionality we don't block the GUI on. For example there is a > > btrfs command, but until

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 07:27:58AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > Which brings me to another point. In kickstart there are commands which > use a functionality we don't block the GUI on. For example there is a > btrfs command, but until recenly btrfs wasn't displayed in Anaconda GUI I've read but not

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-07 Thread Kamil Paral
> I agree with Matt. Kickstart is not only a lowest common denominator > it is > a critical functionality for tons of our testing and deployment > tools. We > don't want revolutionary change in kickstart and we definitely cannot > have > it be broken. Slow, gradual change properly documented is cri

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-06 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Do I see two volunteers to help fix kickstart bugs? :) If it came down to crunch time, and a kickstart bug was keeping us from being able to do a release, you bet I'd volunteer to help fix the kickstart bug. -- Jared Smith -- test mailing

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-06 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm less concerned about changes in anaconda's UI if I know kickstart will continue functioning. Do I see two volunteers to help fix kickstart bugs? :) You see two people who are representative of the majority of linux users in the world - speci

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 11:29 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:39:41PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > >>> I think that may be the case _now_ with our current Anaconda situation, > >>> but > >>> the more I think about it, th

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-06 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:39:41PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: I think that may be the case _now_ with our current Anaconda situation, but the more I think about it, the more strongly I feel about making this the approach for future releases. When

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:39:41PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I think that may be the case _now_ with our current Anaconda situation, but > > the more I think about it, the more strongly I feel about making this the > > approach for future releases. When there's _not_ a big Anaconda rewrite,

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 12:13 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:54:45AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > > > Having depended on kickstart for years, I'm of the very strong belief > > > that while it's okay to have a subset for alpha and beta blockers, > > > *all* documented command

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:54:45AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > > Having depended on kickstart for years, I'm of the very strong belief > > that while it's okay to have a subset for alpha and beta blockers, > > *all* documented commands should work for final unless they were > > marked as deprecated

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-05 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/05/2012 02:37 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: while it's okay to have a subset for alpha and beta blockers, *all*documented commands should work for final unless they were marked as deprecated and gave warnings in a previous release. (Preferably two releases, since jumping one release is expecte

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:54:45AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > > *all* documented commands should work for final unless they were marked > > as deprecated and gave warnings in a previous release. (Preferably two > > releases, since jumping one release is expected with our lifecycle.) > I would pref

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-05 Thread Kamil Paral
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 08:22:52AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > > I tried to make a core selection. I had the following in mind: > > 1. Kickstarts are used for automation, therefore the most important > > commands related to automation must work (manual intervention is > > not fine). > > 2. Comman

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 08:22:52AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > I tried to make a core selection. I had the following in mind: > 1. Kickstarts are used for automation, therefore the most important commands > related to automation must work (manual intervention is not fine). > 2. Commands which are

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-05 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: > I'm not fully decided either way, maybe a bit in favor; I hope some people > will comment here as well. Just keep in mind we want to keep the core command > set small. I agree -- %include and %ksappend should be part of the core command set t

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-05 Thread Kamil Paral
> I make heavy use of the %include directive which I don't see that > you've mentioned anywhere. It's a rather fundamental feature for how > I use kickstarts through livecd-tools to effect dynamic sections. I > suppose I could revise my tools to create a dynamic, yet monolith > kickstart script, bu

Re: new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-05 Thread John . Florian
> From: Kamil Paral > > In the discussion about https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869978 > we agreed that we should have a list of core kickstart commands that > should definitely work for a Final release. > > All the options are documented here: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anacon

new criterion proposal: core kickstart commands

2012-12-05 Thread Kamil Paral
In the discussion about https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869978 we agreed that we should have a list of core kickstart commands that should definitely work for a Final release. All the options are documented here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart I tried to make a cor