On 9/20/18 6:47 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> There was a bug[1] filed recently that indicated that printing was >>> broken on certain printers. As a result of that discussion, it became >>> apparent that there was no criteria for printing to work at all, which >>> seems like an oversight. >>> >>> I discussed this briefly with Matthias Clasen this morning and he >>> agreed that this should be treated as blocking for Workstation. >>> >>> I'd like to propose that we add the following criteria to Beta for Fedora >>> 30+: >>> * Printing must work on at least one printer available to Fedora QA. >>> "Work" is defined as the output from the device matching a preview >>> shown on the GNOME print preview display. (Note that differences in >>> color reproduction are not considered "non-working".) >>> >>> and this to Final for Fedora 30+: >>> * Printing must work on at least one printer using each of the >>> following drivers: >>> (I don't know which ones to specify here, but we ought to try to >>> figure out a cross-section that covers a large swath of our expected >>> user base). >> I'm against this as a blocker for a number of reasons: >> * When we've tried to do hardware specific blocking at the time like >> dual boot with MacOS this has not worked well and the dual boot is >> testable with one piece of hardware >> * It's easy to do a zero day update or a standard update to fix it >> post release as doesn't affect the install path >> * We don't do it for other non critical hardware selections such as >> digital cameras, video cameras, and other such things >> * Hardware availability, I don't see blocking for one type of printer >> over another type is a good use of our time. > > I think it's reasonable to block on some really basic aspects of > printing breakage, like not being able to print to a PDF file, and > possibly being unable to print to the far simpler realm of IPP > Everywhere printers. > > But model specific stuff. No way. I'd be generous with freeze > exceptions, but not blocking the release. I'm even on the fence if I'd > actually block on IPP Everywhere printing being broken. Once we're at > a blocker, do we have the resources to get it fixed within a few days? > If not, forget it. It can't be a blocker if we don't have the > resources to support fixing the blocker in a time escalated manner. > > IMHO for the specific stuff (main printer drivers packages - hplip, foomatic+foomatic-db, gutenprint) we could do a test of general functionality - like if there is at least one printer which works with ppd from the package, then package seems to okay to go.
-- Zdenek Dohnal Associate Software Engineer Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C
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