Fedora 11 schedule proposal

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:00:08PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 20:44 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Fedora is a Red Hat sponsored project and a lot of Fedora developers are 
>> payed by Red Hat. Nevertheless: What really irritates and annoys me is 
>> that it at least *looks like* the idea to delay Fedora 11 a bit to help 
>> RHEL 6 seems to come from *within* the project.
>> 
>> That's IMHO totally wrong way around and IMHO should not have happened.
>> 
>> Fedora IMHO should try to more act like a independent project if Fedora 
>> wants to get taken serious; otherwise Fedora will always stay a RH pet 
>> project that is unattractive to other medium or big sized Linux 
>> companies that might want to get involved in Fedora as well.
>> 
>> Things like that also won't help to get rid of the "Fedora is just a 
>> RHEL beta" fame most of us dislike.
>> 
>> Note that I have *no* problem with the idea itself that RH might want us 
>> to delay F11 (apart from the fact that I belive that predictable release 
>> dates are quite important). But RH should clearly have asked the project 
>> in a kind of official way "Can you please consider a one month delay for 
>> F11 as it would suite us very well".
>
>That's just it.  "Red Hat" isn't asking us to delay.  They're asking us
>to pick a schedule and they'll deal.  Knowing what "Red Hat" is going to
>do in the next year or so as RHEL 6 gets under way, I wanted to give
>Fedora the biggest benefit to that extra attention as possible, and to
>me that meant giving F11 a full 6 month cycle.  After F11 is out, I
>can't guess when RHEL will import Fedora sources and "branch" CVS.  At
>that time, it would be harder to get RHEL resources looking at Fedora
>things, and harder to get RHEL fixes done in Fedora.

Not just Red Hat resources either.  There are business partners that
track RHEL releases.  Who knows, maybe they are willing to focus on
a Fedora release in order to make sure what they care about is in good
shape for RHEL.  That means more people testing and using.

josh