Back to 6 month schedule?

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue May 23 16:02:28 UTC 2006


Am Dienstag, den 23.05.2006, 11:13 -0400 schrieb Jesse Keating:
> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 13:24 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > E.g. always
> > release one week after each Gnome-Release  
> 
> This is extremely distasteful from a rel-eng and QA perspective.  We
> have to have our bits done about a week before we can release to the
> world, so you're asking us to take what Gnome Upstream releases and in
> the same day add them to the distro, spin a release, and send it out to
> the world.  That has 'eat my babies' written all over it.  Case in point
> FC5 release.  We had to scramble to get the latest gnome released
> packages in, and many of them did not go in just because 'too many
> changes to be comfortable with this'.  Ideally we'd be reaching test2
> right around the time Gnome makes their release.  That lines up with a
> feature freeze and gets those fresh bits out into the hands of the
> testers to give us a list of stuff to fix for Test3 and the resulting
> release.

Then make it four weeks after Gnome. Or Two. Or Six -- I don't care. But
I really would like a long-term plan where I know: okay, FC10 will be
out in the beginning on October 2008. 

CU
thl
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>




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