Announcing a change in the Fedora 7 schedule

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 2/17/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> One of the big Features of Fedora 7 is a merged core and extras.  In order to
> accomplish this, we need some improvements to the buildsystem currently used
> by Fedora Extras.  We need these improvements done or mostly done by the
> Feature Freeze of Fedora 7, which was originally set to be the 20th of
> February, 4 days from now.  It is very clear that these changes will not be
> ready by then.
>
> To accomplish these changes (and others) in time for the Feature Freeze, we
> have added another month to the schedule, introducing a Test 4, and moving
> the Feature Freeze as well as String Freeze up to Test 3 freeze, March 19.
>
> This moves the general availability date from April 26 to May 24.
>
> For further discussion on this topic, please use the fedora-maintainers list,
> which I am attempting to set reply-to.
>
> For reference: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/Schedule
>
> --
> Jesse Keating
> Release Engineer: Fedora

I would vote for delaying F7 as long as necessary, since the new
changes is the big update to be looked forward to in F7.

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