Fedora Core 6 Draft Schedule

[Caolan McNamara]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 14:48 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> The dates line up as
> 7 June - FC6 Test1 Development Freeze
> 14 June - FC6 Test1 Release
> 5 July - FC6 Test2 Development Freeze, feature freeze
> 12 July - FC6 Test2 Release
> 9 August - FC6 Test3 Development Freeze
> 16 August - FC6 Test3 Release
> 12 September - Final Devel Freeze. All package builds completed.
> 20 September - FC6 General Availability
> 
> This is all reflected at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule --
> we'll be trying to use this for the canonical schedule location rather
> than off of fedora.redhat.com to help make things easier for updating.
> 
> Beyond just dates, I'd like to also propose an attempt to actually try
> to have some discipline around freezes also.  With FC5, there were a lot
> of things which people wanted to get in late in the cycle.  If we set
> the proper expectations up front, hopefully we can avoid some of the
> tension and mistaken expectations about the release process. 

Perhaps it's worth noting where the various major packages that we ship
keep their release schedules, and when they are. 

e.g. OOo's release schedule lives here 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease203
and the 2.0.3 release dates are compatible with the above FC6 deadlines.

C.