One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri May 29 14:16:39 UTC 2009
Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:36:18AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> 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
>
> Does it make sense to fold in the f11 updates into the next preview
> release? E.g. to move all current updates back to rawhide?
Little sense imo... no/little qa/testing, more work, more delay.
-- Rex
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