Updated Fedora 12 Schedule (take 2)

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Mon Jul 27 07:40:04 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 20:59 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin said the following on 07/24/2009 05:55 AM Pacific Time:
> > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 21:09 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> > 
> >> 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.
> 
> For Fedora 12 An extra week was added to accommodate Linux plumbers 
> conference, etc...https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/1271
> 
> In addition there are four weeks in the Fedora 12 schedule for Alpha 
> (previously known as Beta) versus the three weeks in Fedora 11--this was 
> an oversight in the setting of the Fedora 11 schedule which did not 
> allow for three weekly snapshots.

Okay, the extra two weeks are to allow for (rel-eng?) people being
missing during plumbers and to allow for a third snapshot between alpha
and beta.

That makes sense on the face of it, but the end result for developers is
a release cycle split into a 49 day development period followed by a 99
day stablization period. That's quite conservative for a bleeding edge
distro.

Constructive suggestion for the next cycle - we should go back to a
shorter gap between Feature Freeze and GA.

Cheers,
Mark.




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