Planning For Fedora 8

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

"Fedora 7 isn't even a day old but there's already preparations 
beginning for Fedora 8. The release of Fedora 8 is very tentatively 
planned for October 31, 2008 while the first test release is planned for 
July 1"

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTgxMA

Rahul

[Chris Negus]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 05:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Hi
>  
>  "Fedora 7 isn't even a day old but there's already preparations 
>  beginning for Fedora 8. The release of Fedora 8 is very tentatively 
>  planned for October 31, 2008 while the first test release is planned for 
>  July 1"
>  
>  http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTgxMA 
Any reason why it's only five months instead of the usual 6+ months. I
know shorter release cycles have been threatened before, but I don't
remember it actually happening.

-- Chris

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Chris Negus wrote:

>  Any reason why it's only five months instead of the usual 6+
> months. I
>  know shorter release cycles have been threatened before, but I don't
>  remember it actually happening. 
Because we're hoping to stabilize the 6 month cycle, and the sensible time 
for stabilizing a fall release is the end of October.  Any sooner and we 
won't have enough time to get out a decent release.  Any later and we'll 
be vulnerable to the dreaded "winter holiday" if we slip.

--g

-- 
Greg DeKoenigsberg
Community Development Manager
Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
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...from him much shall be asked"

[Rahul Sundaram]

Chris Negus wrote:
>  On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 05:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > "Fedora 7 isn't even a day old but there's already preparations 
> > beginning for Fedora 8. The release of Fedora 8 is very tentatively 
> > planned for October 31, 2008 while the first test release is planned for 
> > July 1"
> >
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTgxMA
>  
>  Any reason why it's only five months instead of the usual 6+ months. I
>  know shorter release cycles have been threatened before, but I don't
>  remember it actually happening. 
I have added a rationale in 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule

Rahul