One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release

John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
Thu May 28 19:25:54 UTC 2009


Jesse Keating said the following on 05/28/2009 10:36 AM Pacific Time:
> A late discovered and just potentially fixed anaconda storage bug[1] has
> necessitated another week slip of our schedule.  The change is important
> but invasive enough to require re-validating our storage tests.  We were
> already late in producing the Release Candidate and there is not enough
> time to produce another one and validate it in time for next Tuesday's
> release date.  Therefor we have decided to enact another week long slip
> of the release.  This gives us time to create a second release candidate
> and fully validate it and hand it off to the mirrors in plenty of time
> to sync up for the new release date of June 9th.  As much as we regret
> slipping, we also wish to avoid easily trigger-able bugs in our release,
> particularly in software that cannot be fixed with a 0-day update.
>
> At this time we would only accept tag requests for critical issues.
>
> [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500808
>
>

Forgive me for asking the obvious.... have we done a review of all the 
open anaconda bugs for 'rawhide' to make sure there are no other bugs 
already open for anaconda that could put us back into this same situation?

John




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