Changes/FedoraCoreOS

Make Fedora CoreOS a Fedora Edition

Owners

• Name: Clement Verna
• Email: cverna@fedoraproject.org
• Products: Fedora CoreOS
• Responsible WGs: Fedora CoreOS Group

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 34
• Last updated: 2020-12-02
• FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

This changes is to promote Fedora CoreOS to Edition status alongside Workstation, Server and IoT.

Prerequisites are tracked bellow :

• Edition has a team with regular public meeting : weekly meeting happening on #fedora-meeting-1

• Trademark approval from the Fedora Council : council ticket

• Product requirements document (PRD) : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CoreOS/PRD

• Technical specification : https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/blob/master/Design.md

Benefit to Fedora

Make Fedora CoreOS an official edition, will help spread adoption and position Fedora as credible solution for running container workflow.

Scope

• Proposal owners: see change owners

• Other developers: N/A

• Release engineering: Fedora CoreOS is already being composed and released.

• Policies and guidelines: N/A

• Trademark approval: https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/340

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A

How To Test

See QA test cases : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:CoreOS_Test_Cases

We also have regular tests days, for example https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-coreos-test-day/

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) Delay promotion until F35

Contingency deadline: F34 Final release date

Blocks release? No

Documentation

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/