ARM has been accepted as a primary arch at least for buildsystem purposes. The plan is to have 'primary' ARM deliverables as well if possible. This may require adjustments to the release criteria: we should co-ordinate this with the owners of the owners of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ARM_as_Primary (dgilmore and pbrobinson).
See https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-July/185111.html for an initial plan as to how we could achieve this.
Before we do any adjustments to the criteria we need to find out what installation method they indent to use ( anything that applies directly to base/coreOS components is subjected to ARM as well) and which ones of the release blocking desktops intend on releasing arm based image ( either KDE or Gnome or both? )
I would rather we avoided "We could explain specifically in the preamble that certain criteria are not relevant to certain arches" and tried to make arch agnostic instead
But yeah first we kinda need to know which images they themselves or releng plan to release and then work from there.
Yeah, I think there are some changes we can plan without that information but we would need to know those things to complete the necessary changes, indeed.
to date we have produced a network install tree and pre-canned images for use where anaconda is not feasible.
we can look at making a bootable raw install disk
ARM folks, I think Johann's questions from comment #2 are pretty germane here. Is there a definite plan for what the expected 'deliverables' for ARM for F20 are? Is it like F19: two images for the two slight arch variations, to be deployed by imaging followed by initial-setup? Or is there more? Is the network install method for ARM to be considered 'supported' or not?
There will be Minimal, Desktop, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, SoaS, and Mate images. as well as a network install tree. I would like to work out how to make a disk image that offers a anaconda install also. aka like boot.iso
Do we consider network install on ARM targets to be 'supported' / 'recommended' / whatever you want to call it - i.e. of primary, release blocking importance? Ditto boot.iso if we get one?
yes, its the only way we are supporting the server hardware out there, desktop wise right now the best way to install is via the images. However longer term i want things to be like x86
This is basically a dupe of #336 (and various other similar tickets we created over the years).
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