Back to 6 month schedule?

[Paul Howarth]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just checked with the schedule for FC6 in the wiki. I thought FC was
> targetting 9 months cycles, and FC6 looks like a 6 month cycle.
> 
> Just curious what the targeted general schedule is, what FC6's
> concrete schedule is (e.g. if the general schedule is 9 month, why go
> 6 months for FC6?), and closely related to this, what the relationship
> RHEL5 to FC5/FC6 will be.
> 
> My guess is that having an FC6 shortly before RHEL5 may be nice for
> checking some post-FC5 items that will have made it into RHEL5 (for
> instance xen and storage/cluster/gfs improvements). Is that the master
> plan?
> 
> BTW in case it sounds like I would mind either way, I don't. ;)
> 
> Maybe this has been discussed here before, but then I missed it when
> searching for "schedule" and "month" in subject lines.

I thought the 9 months for FC5 was always a one-off in order to get the 
necessary installer infrastructure work done, and the plan was always 
for 6-monthly releases in general.

Paul.