On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 4:00 PM Adam Williamson adamwill@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Sun, 2021-03-14 at 11:13 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
In the wake of the BZ 1924808[1] discussion in Thursday's Go/No-Go meeting[2], I am proposing an addition to the Basic Release Criteria[3]. This would go into Post-Install Requirements -> Expected installed system boot behavior -> First boot utilities (appended after the existing sentence):
If a utility for creating user accounts and other configuration is configured to launch, it must be visible within 10 seconds of the first boot reaching the launch point.
Why 10 seconds? Why not? That sort of feels like the maximum length of time someone could reasonably be expected to wait. A shorter time might be better.
I don't particularly love the wording here, but I wanted to make it clear that it's not 10 seconds from power on, but 10 seconds from the time the boot up reaches the state where we expect gnome-initial-setup or its counterparts to appear.
So, this kinda stalled, but is now a live issue again because we have exactly the same kind of bug again:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997310
so, no-one really objected to this proposal, right? Should we just go ahead and implement it, or what?
Let's go ahead and implement it. Only QA types would consider waiting 2 minutes for this just to (a) time it (b) see what happens, if anything (c) try to find logs and/or some sort of work around. All other mortals will properly hit the power button, give it all a second go - which of course will just hit the same problem, i.e. broken.