Fedora 19 Feature/Branch Freeze coming in one week

[Sandro Mani]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> As time flows really fast, we are getting closer to another important
> milestones for Fedora 19 [1] on 2013-03-12 (as agreed by FESCo):
> * Feature Freeze -- Planning & Development Ends
> * Branch Freeze -- Branch Fedora 19 from Rawhide
>
> Feature Freeze is in one week from now, please keep in mind that
> it's the time when your features has to be in *substantially
> complete and in a testable state!*. See the Feature Freeze policy [2].
>
> Please update your feature pages - with the best percentage done
> "estimate" - 80%+ and last updated field (do not update Features List,
> it's  automatically generated now). If you're *at risk* of not making
> the Feature Freeze, please update your feature page accordingly
> and let me know. The community can help a lot, communication is the
> key.
>
> For Branch Freeze Policy, take a look on [3] and also on the list
> of orphaned packages and packages that have failed to build since
> Fedora 17, as these are going to be blocked on Branch date [4].
>
> The full Fedora 19 schedule moved to a new, program manager neutral
> place, see [5]. Please, let me know if you need any change in the
> schedule.
>
> Thanks
> Jaroslav
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/Schedule
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Policy
> [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Branch_Freeze_Policy
> [4] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-March/179338.html
> [5] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-19/
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For the Pillow feature [1], the biggest blocker currently is the lack of a
response on bug 889784 [2], which blocks the python3 build. While we could
package only the python2 variant for the time being, it would be a pity.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Pillow
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889784
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