After aggressively defending the Anaconda team much of the weekend from people on users@
suggesting the installer was somewhere between useless crap and willfully designed to piss
users off, I read this revelation:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079604#c6
If only it were Anaconda's design goal to intentionally piss users off, because that
would be an upgrade from David Cantrell's philosophy of "giving people just
enough rope to hang themselves."
That sucks. It's not what I signed up for, and it's incongruent with my
motivations for testing the installer. Now I'd like those hundreds of hours back.
As this relates to Fedora QA, I think QA should suspend mandatory test cases, test matrix
entries, and release criteria related to anything in Manual Partitioning. That is, any
test case related to Manual Partitioning would be an optional test. And if it hasn't
been done, or if it isn't passing, even if there's a crash, the release is not
blocked. Fedora QA can retask freed up resources to other packages/projects that could use
QA's help.
I'd just let Manual Partitioning be a free for all between the Anaconda team and its
volunteer user base to decide both features and quality level, and leave Fedora QA
completely out of it.
Chris Murphy