One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu May 28 17:36:18 UTC 2009


A late discovered and just potentially fixed anaconda storage bug[1] has
necessitated another week slip of our schedule.  The change is important
but invasive enough to require re-validating our storage tests.  We were
already late in producing the Release Candidate and there is not enough
time to produce another one and validate it in time for next Tuesday's
release date.  Therefor we have decided to enact another week long slip
of the release.  This gives us time to create a second release candidate
and fully validate it and hand it off to the mirrors in plenty of time
to sync up for the new release date of June 9th.  As much as we regret
slipping, we also wish to avoid easily trigger-able bugs in our release,
particularly in software that cannot be fixed with a 0-day update.

At this time we would only accept tag requests for critical issues.

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500808

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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