Another slip in the FC6 schedule
ronald
rwarsow at online.de
Wed Oct 18 02:14:11 UTC 2006
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 16 October 2006 17:26, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Over the weekend we ran into a few more bugs with Fedora Core 6 that we
>> decided were important enough to fix. There were some multilib compose
>> issues (wrong packages landing in the wrong dirs), some translation files
>> that would cause tracebacks in things like anaconda (whoops), and a
>> fedora-release package that forgot to enable updates (double whoops). For
>> these reasons and a few others, we decided to respin the release candidate
>> tree and push the release date out another couple of days.
>>
>> The current plan is to spin a release candidate this evening with some last
>> minute fixes, and start the sync. Validation has gone very well up to this
>> point and baring any blow ups in the spin process, the release looks very
>> solid. We're planning to release on Thursday Oct 19th. This should give
>> the mirrors enough days to sync up. If things blow up horribly and we have
>> to spin again tomorrow, depending on what time we have to respin we may
>> slip until next week, as releasing on Fridays or Mondays gets you the wrath
>> of the mirror admins (:
>>
>> I want to thank you all for playing along and helping us to make FC6 the
>> best release yet!
>
> Hi, its me again, remember me? I was the guy who told you we would probably
> release on Thursday of this week. Yeah, about that...
>
> Bugs suck. More bugs suck more. I'd rather go DOWN in bug count with the
> trees we spin than up, so after some regressions popped up, we're going to
> respin again and push the release out until next Tuesday, the 24th. This
okay then.
my suggestion is:
do a complete respin or whatsoever and *then* announce a release date.
just my opinion !
okay ?
...
--
ronald
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