Re: Criteria / validation proposal: drop Xen

[Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>]

Sorry for top posting...

FYI, I am on vacation right now. I will be back next week. So, if it is
not urgent I will explain all the stuff and update relevant bug at the
beginning of next week. Sorry for delay.

Daniel

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 12:44:37PM +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
> (and sending to the list this time due to Geary being rather featureless
> mail client)
>
> As one of those being caught by regressions upgrading F29 to F30 under Xen
> DomU's, I think this is a bad idea.
>
> It shows that it wasn't tested, because it doesn't work. To me, this exposes
> weaknesses in the testing and the solution shouldn't be "The check fails,
> remove the check".
>
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 4:18 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:22:13PM +0530, Sumantro Mukherjee wrote:
> > >  Yup +1 from my side too. Xen is hardly tested since a lot of time.
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > And that is thanks to one of the GRUB2 bugs that needs some love
> > from Peter Jones.
> >
> > As without that bug being fixed - it is very difficult to test it - as
> > you can't even load Xen!
> >
> > I've asked the upstream GRUB maintainer to sheed some light on the
> > confusion about multiboot2 + SecureBoot - hopefully that will resolve
> > the question.
> >
> > My vote is to have it remain as is.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > >
> > >  On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:07 PM Geoffrey Marr <gmarr@redhat.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >  > Since F24, I haven't seen or heard of anyone who uses Xen over KVM
> > >  > anywhere other than this thread... I'm +1 for making this test an
> > >  > "Optional" one.
> > >  >
> > >  > Geoff Marr
> > >  > IRC: coremodule
> > >  >
> > >  >
> > >  > On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:33 AM Adam Williamson <
> > >  > adamwill@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > >  >
> > >  >> On Thu, 2017-07-06 at 13:19 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > >  >> > On Thu, 2017-07-06 at 15:59 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > >  >> > > > > I would prefer for it to remain as it is.
> > >  >> > > >
> > >  >> > > > This is only practical if it's going to be tested, and
> > > tested
> > >  >> regularly
> > >  >> > > > - not *only* on the final release candidate, right before
> > > we sign
> > >  >> off
> > >  >> > > > on the release. It needs to be tested regularly throughout
> > > the
> > >  >> release
> > >  >> > > > cycle, on the composes that are "nominated for testing".
> > >  >> > >
> > >  >> > > Right, which is why I am happy that you have pointed me to
> > > the right
> > >  >> > > place so I can be up-to-date.
> > >  >> >
> > >  >> > Great, thanks. So let's leave it as it is for now, but we'll
> > > keep an
> > >  >> > eye on this during F27 cycle. If we get to, say, Beta and
> > > there are no
> > >  >> > results for the test, that's gonna be a problem. Thanks!
> > >  >>
> > >  >> So, for Fedora 30, this was not tested throughout the whole
> > > cycle. I
> > >  >> think we can consider the proposal to remove the criterion active
> > >  >> again.
> > >  >> --
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