Re: Updated Fedora 12 Schedule (take 2)

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Mark McLoughlin (markmc redhat com) said: 
> > http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-releng-tasks.html
> > http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-releng.ics
> 
> In the F-11 schedule, we had 85 days between Feature Freeze and GA. And
> then GA slipped by two weeks.
> 
> In the F-12 schedule, we now have 99 days between Feature Freeze and GA.
> 
> This seriously cuts into development time, and we already have a shorter
> releases cycle.
> 
> Why is that?

At least one week of this (that I recall) is to have the feature freeze
be a week before the 'code freeze' for the milestone; the idea is that
to avoid the 'all features land at once, and we have to spend a week
cleaning them up' problem.

Bill