Fedora Core 6 Draft Schedule

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:54 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 4/17/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Comments, feedback, etc?
> 
> Anyway we can have some restrictions on how late in the cycle items
> get punted out of Core? Or atleast some restrictions on the minimum
> amount of notice Extras maintainers are given with regard to the
> intent to punt something out of Core and some guidance as to what
> constitutes appropriate notice, so we can avoid a scramble to reimport
> something into Extras after it is dropped from Core.

Personally, I think this falls (largely) into the category of feature
freeze.  Calling out "end of new module/module removal" makes sense.
Granted, if we're 200k over the size of a CD, we'll probably end up
making the call of remove something, but those should be exception cases
that we wave our hands wildly about, and not the norm.

> I'd like to be in a position where Extras maintainers can reasonable
> have enough time to get a soon to be dropped Core library through
> Extras review and in Extras cvs an ready to fire off a build as soon
> as its dropped from Core. This isn't the sort of thing Extras can
> dictate to Core, Core needs to have some established guidance to make
> sure this sort of thing gets communicated in a way that Extras
> maintainers are not caught with their pants down with 2 weeks before
> final release.

In general, I'm trying to get a little bit of better notification in
place for handling of the Core/Extras divide by delegating the addition
of some steps to the process ;)

Jeremy