Fedora 8 Schedule

[Rex Dieter]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> On 5/31/07, David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 18:02 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>
>> > And as for the regular release part, don't the schedules always slip
>> > anyway?
>> >
>>
>> Pretty much always, and it goes both ways.  F8 could push back a week or
>> two to try to accomodate KDE, but then KDE may wind up pushing back a
>> bit to finish up some last bits.  Then F8 has to either go ahead and
>> release sans KDE final, or wait more, and then the Gnome-ers are
>> screaming "why are we waiting for KDE?  I don't use it so that must mean
>> that no one does!" etc etc.
>>
>> It sucks, but that's life.
> 
> 
> In such a case, i suggest shipping KDE 3.x and go to KDE 4.x mid F8.

Not an option, that path leads to madness, unless kde3/kde4 suddenly become
100% parallel-installable between now and then (possible, but highly
unlikely).

-- rex