From kwade at redhat.com Tue Feb 3 00:43:13 2009 From: kwade at redhat.com (Karsten Wade) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:43:13 -0800 Subject: Fedora 11 schedule reminder ... Message-ID: <20090203004313.GB7772@calliope.phig.org> In case you were looking to have your software as a feature[1] for Fedora 11, keep in mind the rapidly progressing schedule[2]. In particular: 2009-02-03 Alpha Release 2009-03-03 Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends 2009-03-10 Beta Freeze 2009-03-24 Beta Release & Software String Freeze 2009-04-07 Software Translation Deadline 2009-04-14 Final Development Freeze 2009-04-28 Preview Release 2009-05-12 Compose & Stage Release Candidate 2009-05-26 Fedora 11 Final Release For those subscribed to fedora-devel-announce[3] you know that the F11 Alpha has slipped by a few days to some late breaking bugs[4]. This should not impact the overall schedule, it is flexible for internal slipping by a few days. I've seen it publicly supposed[5] that RHEL 6 is going to be based on F11. If this is the case (and I honestly don't know :), then software that is in F11 gets the longest testing for RHEL 6. In other words, work done now for F11 is work done for RHEL 6. I can assist by explaining in more detail the schedule milestones, if anyone wants that. Two in particular that matter are: * Feature freeze 03 March 2009 * Final development freeze 14 April 2009 The feature freeze is the point where your software is included in the marketing and engineering focus for the release. Some of the features are a regular part of the talking points[6] used for press contacts. If there are (enough?) ISV-specific packages in this release, I will do work to make sure the group overall and individual companies are recognized in the talking points. No promises, but I know people. :) Final development freeze is the drop-dead moment to get software in the default Fedora 11 repositories. Going from there to a specific spin (GNOME or KDE desktop, Electronics Labratory, Games, Server, etc.) is only possible/likely if you are in that repository. It is possible to get software in the repositories after that date, but it will be add-on to the F11 base set. The fact is, the release dates are more for the external world; we just put out the most that is ready by then, and keep on developing. For you, however, it may be an opportunity worth catching. - Karsten [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule [3] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce [4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg00013.html [5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Relationship_to_free_or_community_distributions [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Talking_Points -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Let me know if you are even considering having a feature ready so I can work with you on how to make it happen. Since I am sending this on a Friday before a long weekend, I may just send another reminder mid next week. Please pardon in advance. :) - Karsten [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Dashboard -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Stop by our booth or let me know where to find you and when. - Karsten PS - I'm also going to OSCON, LinuxFest Northwest, and MySQL Conf, same deal. :) -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From kwade at redhat.com Thu Feb 19 00:05:20 2009 From: kwade at redhat.com (Karsten Wade) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:05:20 -0800 Subject: Three useful and low traffic subscriptions Message-ID: <20090219000520.GA23094@calliope.phig.org> Just a quick tip about ways to keep track of the Fedora Project that are meaningful to you, which also happen to be very low traffic. Especially in comparison to fedora-devel-list! * Fedora Weekly News (FWN) is a summary of mailing list and blog traffic for the previous week. You can read just the parts that matter to you, and perhaps learn about something that could matter to you. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN * fedora-announce-list is the general community announcement list. There are two or three posts per week, with notice of the latest issue of FWN being one of them. http://redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list * fedora-devel-announce is the list for anything important to all packagers, developers, and people involved in the technical aspects of producing a Linux distro. http://redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: