Release counter for F9

[Nicu Buculei]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 13:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>> Jon Stanley wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  A first thing would be, IMO, to define when we start counting. I see 
>>>>> two
>>>>>  possible scenarios: either from a certain number of days in advance (30
>>>>>  days sounds plausible) or from the Release Candidate.
>>>> The problem with starting this far out is that we're still not
>>>> entirely sure if we're going to slip the release date or not, based
>>>> upon the slips that we've had so far in the schedule (we've lost about
>>>> 2 weeks to slips thus far).  We're trying like hell to release on 4/29
>>>> as planned, but there's a (not so) small chance that won't happen.  It
>>>> would look fairly bad to "turn back the clock" when/if we slip.
>>> This is why we probably should escalate this to the right level and get 
>>> an advice (as good as it could be made, we all know delays may happen 
>>> even in the last week) about the date.
>>>
>>> I believe ReleaseEngineering is the proper entity to ask about this, do 
>>> we have anyone here connected to it?
>> CC'ing rel-eng.
> 
> At this time we're not slipping.  However even if we did, we can just
> reset the counter back a little bit.  It's not really worse than having
> our release date change on the schedule page.  It certainly wouldn't be
> the first case of a computer progress timer going backwards...

So we can start the counter whenever we want. Just say a number and 
counter images will be produced starting from that day.

So far this is the only proposal for a counter image: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/PromoBanners#head-ab3c9d92ea25a8b18ae3af39c9c5a77315deeaf2

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