no ... *really* ... any ETA for updated beta?

[Joel Young]

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From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris at redhat.com>
> Considering now that we have announced some dates in the beta 
> installer screens, and we've indeed not been able to meet one of 
> the dates, this very much illustrates that Red Hat's previous 
> policy of not pre-announcing dates of things was very well 
> thought out and rational, because now that the date has been 
> missed, we are seeing people rant and rave about it.

Since this is intended to be a community project, I have viewed
these release dates as managerial goals to help the redhat external
participants manage their resources.  We have a loose idea of
when the next milestone is so we can prioritize our self imposed
tasks:

1.  install or upgrade to new release
2.  start reporting burst of bugs from the errors 
    found only in first use/install phase
3.  watch bugs, track personally important issues, make patches
    etc. if we want fixed in next release
4.  get some paying work done
5.  notice new release is nigh and try to push our personal
    agendas some more, e.g., new kernel patch for touchpads or
    something
6.  stabilize systems for upgrade, make backups etc.
7.  repeat

Having goal dates makes the above much easier, IMHO.

Joel