That all sounds reasonable to me. Does wifi fall into this as well? Stephen
On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 17:11 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hi folks! > > So at this week's blocker review meeting, the fact that we don't have > explicit networking requirements in the release criteria really > started > to bite us. In the past we have squeezed networking-related issues in > under other criteria, but for some issues that's really difficult, > notably VPN issues. So, we agreed we should draft some explicit > networking criteria. > > This turns out to be a big area and quite hard to cover (who'd've > thought!), but here is at least a first draft for us to start from. > My > proposal would be to add this to the Basic criteria. I have left out > some wikitext stuff from the proposal for clarity; I'd add it back in > on actually applying the proposed changes. It's just formatting > stuff, > nothing that'd change the meaning. Anyone have thoughts, complaints, > alternative approaches, supplements? Thanks! > > === Network requirements === > > Each of these requirements apply to both installer and installed > system > environments. For any given installer environment, the 'default > network > configuration tools' are considered to be those the installer > documents > as supported ways to configure networking (e.g. for anaconda-based > environments, configuration via kernel command line options, a > kickstart, or interactively in anaconda itself are included). > > ==== Basic networking ==== > > It must be possible to establish both IPv4 and IPv6 network > connections > using DHCP and static addressing. The default network configuration > tools for the console and for release-blocking desktops must work > well > enough to allow typical network connection configuration operations > without major workarounds. Standard network functions such as address > resolution and connections with common protocols such as ping, HTTP > and > ssh must work as expected. > > Footnote titled "Supported hardware": Supported network hardware is > hardware for which the Fedora kernel includes drivers and, where > necessary, for which a firmware package is available. If support for > a > commonly-used piece or type of network hardware that would usually be > present is omitted, that may constitute a violation of this > criterion, > after consideration of the [[Blocker_Bug_FAQ|hardware-dependent- > issues|normal factors for hardware-dependent issues]]. Similarly, > violations of this criteria that are hardware or configuration > dependent are, as usual, subject to consideration of those factors > when > determining whether they are release-blocking > > ==== VPN connections ==== > > Using the default network configuration tools for the console and for > release-blocking desktops, it must be possible to establish a working > connection to common OpenVPN, openconnect-supported and vpnc- > supported > VNC servers with typical configurations. > > Footnote title "Supported servers and configurations": As there are > many different VPN server applications and configurations, blocker > reviewers must use their best judgment in determining whether > violations of this criterion are likely to be encountered commonly > enough to block a release, and if so, at which milestone. As a > general > principle, the more people are likely to use affected servers and the > less complicated the configuration required to hit the bug, the more > likely it is to be a blocker. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . > net > http://www.happyassassin.net > _______________________________________________ > test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org
