Another slip in the FC6 schedule

[ronald]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 16 October 2006 17:26, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Over the weekend we ran into a few more bugs with Fedora Core 6 that we
>> decided were important enough to fix.  There were some multilib compose
>> issues (wrong packages landing in the wrong dirs), some translation files
>> that would cause tracebacks in things like anaconda (whoops), and a
>> fedora-release package that forgot to enable updates (double whoops).  For
>> these reasons and a few others, we decided to respin the release candidate
>> tree and push the release date out another couple of days.
>>
>> The current plan is to spin a release candidate this evening with some last
>> minute fixes, and start the sync.  Validation has gone very well up to this
>> point and baring any blow ups in the spin process, the release looks very
>> solid.  We're planning to release on Thursday Oct 19th.  This should give
>> the mirrors enough days to sync up.  If things blow up horribly and we have
>> to spin again tomorrow, depending on what time we have to respin we may
>> slip until next week, as releasing on Fridays or Mondays gets you the wrath
>> of the mirror admins (:
>>
>> I want to thank you all for playing along and helping us to make FC6 the
>> best release yet!
> 
> Hi, its me again, remember me?  I was the guy who told you we would probably 
> release on Thursday of this week.  Yeah, about that...
> 
> Bugs suck.  More bugs suck more.  I'd rather go DOWN in bug count with the 
> trees we spin than up, so after some regressions popped up, we're going to 
> respin again and push the release out until next Tuesday, the 24th.  This 

okay then.

my suggestion is:
do a complete respin or whatsoever and *then* announce a release date.

just my opinion !

okay ?

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    ronald