Re: [Announcement] Fedora 7 Deep Freeze/GA release schedule change

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer jdub homelinux org>]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 00:57 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > The bulk of the Core/Extras merge has now been finished, and the Release
> > Engineering team has been working hard to get things back in shape for
> > the final F7 release.  However, due to the massive nature of this
> > undertaking, we are not coming back online as fast as we had hoped.
> > 
> > We do not have a rawhide repository available as of yet, and the release
> > and QA teams are not comfortable going into deep freeze at this point.
> > During the Release team meeting yesterday, it was decided to slip the
> > deep freeze date by a week at least.  This will also slip the final
> > release of Fedora 7 by at least a week.
> > 
> > Slipping a week will allow more time for the merge tree to materialize
> > and stabilize.  Maintainers will also have more time to adjust to the
> > new processes involved as a result of the merge.  We will also have more
> > time to evaluate the blocking bugs that are currently open in Bugzilla.
> > 
> > While this slip is unfortunate, it is also in the best interest for the
> > quality of the release.  Please bear with us as we strive to make this
> > the best release of Fedora to date!
> 
> Please update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/Schedule

Done for now.  I will update it with the actual dates as soon as we have
something more firm that "at least one week slip".

Thanks for pointing this out.

josh