On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/04/13 01:28 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >> >>> Anaconda set's the minimal hw requirements so you should check what's >> their today's requirement to function properly >> > > Well, half the time the number in anaconda doesn't get touched unless > someone bugs the anaconda team about it, so... > > It's a really squishy area to try and deal with, though, honestly. I'm not > entirely sure validating HW requirements as part of QA is realistic, > because I mean, what if we pick 'mail/web server' as one of the roles? Do > we have to set up a kickstart that builds out a running > postfix/dovecot/apache/**wordpress machine and run it for a couple of > weeks and see what resource use is like? It seems a bit impractical. What > we can do - and do do at present, though it isn't written in stone anywhere > - is check that install is possible with various package sets with various > amounts of RAM right around the current anaconda 'hard floor', but trying > to determine the minimum resources for various 'real world scenarios' seems > like it might be quite a lot of thankless work... > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > > Yeah, that's *way* more work than I think the cause merits. We don't exactly have hardware vendors scrambling to pay for certification stickers :) I was hoping you guys were already collecting information, or that a datapoint could be added to existing tests. Identifying things like the memory required to complete a default installation, or the base graphics hardware required to run gnome-shell without mashing the keyboard in frustration and moving to another distro, or a recommended figure for available storage using the default packageset and a comfortable amount of room. I *really* want to stay away from absolute 'minimum' guidelines. Those with the skills to set a system up with comically low resources are not the target audience - we want to set reasonable expectations for the desktop user, and guidelines for other use cases. We can steer towards a lighter spin for machines with low resources, for example, or boast about the node size we can use in the cloud. -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanetize at fedoraproject.org
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