Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

[Chris Lumens]

> > An earlier freeze would have just frozen the work unfinished.  The
> > rewrite was a massive undertaking and we knew it was going to take
> > longer than the release cycle to finish.  Freezing earlier wouldn't have
> > helped.
> 
> Then it should have been done in a work branch and targeted for a later
> release.

Which, of course, it was.  But there's no substitute for real-world
testing.  We do not have nearly the variety of hardware setups, existing
partition layouts, or unusual requirements here that users do.  At some
point, we really do just have to let the new code loose on everyone and
get the broad testing that's supposed to be one of the hallmarks of free
software.

- Chris