Fedora Core 2 on schedule?

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 12:00 5/11/2004, Tom Diehl wrote:
>I would rather time be taken to get the thing out the door than worrying about
>updating a web page to say we are still on skd.

Not applicable to several thousand other people who *plan* around that 
schedule, Tom. Also, given the size of this audience, the more 
professionally things are done, the better things will go and the more 
smoothly the community will function. Personally, I believe that if one 
posts a schedule one should:

         1. Only post milestone points which can be clearly defined and are 
important.

         2. Clearly note the date when each milestone is passed (and post 
this information, of course).

         3. Post *one paragraph* of "latest news" and update it once a week 
or whenever a milestone is passed... whichever is more frequent.

         4. Immediately post any changes to the posted schedule.

Even if one poor sod is doing all the website maintenance, the above four 
points would not take him/her any longer than five minutes a week. And 
given the positive PR and impact on the perception of the afore-mentioned 
several thousand people plus magazine reviewers, other press contacts, 
idiots who say we'll never be a polished, business-usable operating system, 
et al., I should think that those four points are the *very least* the 
Fedora Project should complete re the posted schedule.

Cheers,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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