Op maandag 19 februari 2018 16:47:48 CET schreef Richard Brown:
On 19 February 2018 at 16:39, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Richard Brown wrote:
And yet, creating a 3rd flavour of image, would need a significant amount of build time/power, and significant amount of testing required.
Why should it require more testing? I imagine a larger image would be <dvd-image> + <more packages>. Which is no different to <dvd-image> + <more packages from the net>
Maybe that's an alternative - for a larger image, we simply take the DVD image, and add packages in a separate partition to be used as a local repo. The installer should be able to pick that up without too much work.
Just because something works fine when installed from Installation Media #1 doesn't mean it will work fine when installed from Installation Media #2
That is why we have test coverage like
https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/overview?distri=kubic&distri=opensuse&vers ion=Tumbleweed&build=20180218&groupid=1 and https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/overview?distri=opensuse&version=15.0&buil d=131.1&groupid=50
which run a significant number of tests against BOTH the DVD media and the NET media currently
and quite often find failures on one, but not the other
If you're talking about adding a 3rd Media, then I would expect our openQA coverage alone would need to increase by 33% to account for that. Even if that coverage is 100% duplicated from the tests/needles/etc written for other media, that's a lot of hardware and/or machine time, as well as regular (daily) human review/triage.
We shouldn't go deciding for something like this and just throw it over the wall as untested nonsense - that wouldn't be the openSUSE way. But doing things properly has real costs, and they should be considered.
Well, we already test Xfce and Lxde on TW, which is distributed in a DVD size image...... Admitted that I have no proper idea about what kind of effort it would be to do provide them in the installer, on the condition that a network connection has been established and distro repos have been enabled. Just some thoughts,. -- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Forums Team Linux user #548252 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org