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