Fedora 15 Schedule

[Kyle McMartin]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:32:38PM -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
> I would like to help with this.  To do so I need to know which tasks and 
> milestones to include in the schedule. Here is the current development 
> schedule for Fedora 15:
> 

Sure, right now, we'd target 2.6.38 for F-15, which should be released
around the beginning of April.

As it stands, 2.6.37 should be released approximately mid-January, based
on us being at 2.6.36-rc3 now and the usually week and a bit between
-rc (and usually releasing at approximately -rc8.) Christmas and LCA if
Linus goes might be a bit of a delay there, but I'd gather we'll be at
2.6.37 pre-F15-branch.

It's usually a two week merge window for -rc1, and then the usual cycle,
of roughly 80 days total before the next kernel release.

>    Start         End          Name
> Wed 19-Jan  Wed 19-Jan  Submit Installer Builds for QA Compose
> Tue 25-Jan  Tue 25-Jan  Feature Submission Deadline
> Wed 26-Jan  Wed 26-Jan  Submit Installer Builds for QA Compose
> Sat 29-Jan  Mon 31-Jan  Fudcon Fedora 15--Tempe, Arizona
> Wed 02-Feb  Wed 02-Feb  Submit Installer Builds for QA Compose
> Tue 08-Feb  Tue 08-Feb  Branch Fedora 15 from Rawhide

 ~ 2.6.37 release date.

> Tue 08-Feb  Tue 08-Feb  Orphan Rawhide Packages
> Tue 08-Feb  Tue 08-Feb  Feature Freeze (Testable|Complete)
> Tue 08-Feb  Tue 08-Feb  Spins Freeze--All Fedora 15 Spins Identified
> Tue 15-Feb  Tue 15-Feb  Alpha Change Deadline
> Tue 15-Feb  Tue 15-Feb  Software String Freeze
> Wed 16-Feb  Wed 16-Feb  Submit Installer Builds for Alpha RC Compose
> Tue 01-Mar  Tue 01-Mar  Alpha Public Availability
> Fri 04-Mar  Fri 04-Mar  Build F-15 collection packages for all language 
> translators
> Mon 14-Mar  Mon 14-Mar  Submit Installer Builds for Beta TC Compose
> Tue 15-Mar  Tue 15-Mar  Software: Start Rebuild all translated packages
> Tue 15-Mar  Tue 22-Mar  Software: Rebuild all translated packages
> Tue 22-Mar  Tue 22-Mar  Beta Change Deadline

~ 2.6.38-rc[7-8]

> Tue 22-Mar  Tue 22-Mar  Features 100% Complete Deadline
> Wed 23-Mar  Wed 23-Mar  Submit Installer Builds for Beta RC Compose
> Tue 05-Apr  Tue 05-Apr  Beta Release Public Availability

~ 2.6.38 release.

> Fri 15-Apr  Fri 15-Apr  Submit Installer Builds for Final TC Compose
> Mon 25-Apr  Mon 25-Apr  Final Change Deadline
> Mon 25-Apr  Mon 25-Apr  Submit Installer Builds for Final RC Compose
> Tue 10-May  Tue 10-May  Final (GA) Release
> 
> What should we add for the kernel team so that important dates are known 
> and Fedora 15 can be well coordinated?
> 

By mid-March we should be well on our way through the 2.6.38 cycle, I
think we'll probably stick on 2.6.37 for Alpha (depending on the exact
release date) and immediately switch to 2.6.38-rc2 in F-15 afterwards,
which should avoid us releasing an Alpha with a 'too raw' -rc1 kernel
and still give us plenty of time to clean up issues with 2.6.38-rc[12].

Obviously, the earlier we branch the better, and having more people test
the hell out of the kernel upstream the better.

--Kyle