Some recent changes

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

On 10/20/2009 07:23 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
>>
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> We could try a 9-month release schedule like we did with FC5. I seem to
> recall that ended in tears, though.
>

Nice one, would that also get us to a 19-month support cycle? ;-)

-- Jeroen