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[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>]

David Kowis a écrit :
> I'm going to be nitpicky here and pick your nits about this one.
> Those are terrible requirements. Not terrible as in they're not things we 
> want,
> but terrible as in quantifiable.
>
> Easy to maintain.
> How can this be measured?
> Perhaps better would be:
> - - Installer will be modularly built, such that each module is one menu item 
> in
> the installer.
>
> Keep ISO size down.
> Below what threshold are we talking about here? To me under 700MB is fine. But
> that my not be sufficiently small for others. IIRC, the community wants it to
> remain under 200Mb for those little card CDs?
> - - Total ISO size will remain at or below 200mb as a finished product.
>
> It should work.
> These type of requirements are perhaps the most difficult to define. The only
> way to quantify such a thing is to perhaps determine a number of bugs found 
> per
> test. Similar to the way the Stable Grimoire's are "certified."
> - - A stable ISO release should have no more than X bugs filed against it.
>
> Then we can measure such things and determine if they've been met.
> To me this means that we can prove to the Source Mage Community that we've met
> the requirements that they've helped define and we can have an ISO we're all
> proud of.
>
> Thanks for letting me rant about this one, even if you didn't actually read 
> this
> far :)
>
> David

Good point David. It's useless to define criteria such as "It should 
work" or "It should easy to maintain" because they don't give us an 
objective way to check them. The criteria i defined on the wiki [1] are 
easier to check (but maybe more limited right now).

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru
[1] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=ISO+generation+guide