Re: Planning For Fedora 8

[Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk redhat com>]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Chris Negus wrote:

> Any reason why it's only five months instead of the usual 6+ months. I
> know shorter release cycles have been threatened before, but I don't
> remember it actually happening.

Because we're hoping to stabilize the 6 month cycle, and the sensible time 
for stabilizing a fall release is the end of October.  Any sooner and we 
won't have enough time to get out a decent release.  Any later and we'll 
be vulnerable to the dreaded "winter holiday" if we slip.

--g

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