Some recent changes

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 20 17:23:30 UTC 2009



On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 12:13 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> Last minute is hardly accurate when we still have 4 weeks to go to the
>> actual release. Thats 1/6 of the entire devel cycle.
>
> Small point of fact.  It's 4 weeks until the release date.  We have to
> have things composed and staged to mirrors nearly a week prior to that,
> and thus in RC stage a few days before that.  You most certainly do not
> have 4 weeks of bugfixing left.  I'd prefer all changes are done by Nov
> 10th so that we can enter the RC stage and only pick up changes that
> would prevent the release of Fedora 12.
>
> Fedora 12 was a compressed release, we knew that creating the schedule
> and going into the release.  That means we have to cut some corners and
> make some sacrifices in order to get back to our May day / Halloween
> schedule.
>
> Now if we want to change that from a 6 month dirge to something more
> stretched out, I would welcome that, in addition to the other changes we
> are making to maximize both development time and polish time.
>

We could try a 9-month release schedule like we did with FC5. I seem to 
recall that ended in tears, though.


-sv




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