Description of problem: The release criterion says: "The final branded release notes must be present on release-blocking images and the appropriately versioned generic release notes must be available in the release repository. " https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_22_Final_Release_Criteria#Release_notes However, Workstation image does not contain fedora-release-notes package. That seems to be intentional, per these discussions: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2014-August/thread.html#10399 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2014-September/thread.html#10455 http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-11-05/workstation.2014-11-05-16.00.log.html However, those discussions seems to indicate that the plan to just remove the release notes menu item and instead add it as a link from getting-started docs or the main gnome-help page. But that doesn't seem to have happened, at least I don't see it there. So the end result is that release notes are not present on Workstation image. We either need to amend the criterion and exempt Workstation image from it, or add the release notes in some form. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F22 TC4 Workstation Live x86_64
As an interesting piece of information, fedora release notes were not included even in Fedora 21 Workstation Live. So it's not a recent "regression".
It was an intentional F21 change to not ship the release notes, and nothing has changed in that area between F21 and F22 as far as I know. As for linking to the release notes from getting-started docs, I don't know if it's planned or not. But it's highly unlikely to materialize in time for F22, so my recommendation would be to update the criteria. Especially considering that we've already shipped F21 without release notes and it passed the release validation back then.
It was probably an oversight. If not shipping them is intentional, we can exempt Workstation from the criterion (it's not really meant to be prescriptive), though I think it's a shame if Workstation doesn't provide any clear reference to the document. It'd be nice if it was the default Document in Documents, for instance...
-1 blocker, to be honest - I'd remove this criterion for all deliverables. Online documentation/release notes are more flexible but I agree having pointer to release notes is desirable.
Yeah, -1 blocker for F22. We can decide on new criteria for F23. If we're asking for ponies, I'd love to see an extension for Firefox that would cache the release notes and other documentation locally if the server is unavailable. This would be much more reliable than shipping the documentation in packages (and easier to keep updated).
Discussed at today's blocker review meeting [1]. This bug was rejected as blocker: This was an intentional change and also the state of F21. Criteria to be amended before F23. [1] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2015-05-18
Here's a QA ticket to amend said criterion: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/471
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