Fedora <insert favorite name here|null> 7 planing

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Max Spevack schrieb:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> in last weeks FESCo meeting the topic "FC7 schedule" came up. I did take 
>> a look at some historical schedules and I got the impression that there 
>> are normally four (sometimes five and seldom more) weeks between each 
>> test release or between test3 and final.
>>
>> That means: If we aim for a release in late March/early April(¹) we 
>> would need to release the first beta in early January afaics -- at least 
>> if we want to continue as we did in the past. Well, that quite soon. 
>> Shouldn't we start planing the first test-release slowly? And, btw, who 
>> is actually going to drive this? The core cabal is in still in question 
>> -- or do we plan to change that soon? Or do we want to set an interim 
>> solution in place to slowly try the new Fedora-world-order a bit -- e.g. 
>> a mix between core cabal and FESCo?
>>
>> (¹) -- I think we should target early March, then we'll hit mid-April 
                                    ^^^^^
Sorry, that was no stupid joke, this was really a typo. I meant late 
March, too (it to late for early March in any case).

>> probably ;-)
> 
> We released Zod on October 24th.  6 months out from that is April 24th.
  >
> The Red Hat Summit for 2007 is on May 8th, and I think it is *critical* 
> that we have Fedora 7 done in time for that, so that every person who 
> shows up at the Summit gets a Fedora 7 DVD along with all of their other 
> stuff, and so that we can make a HUGE DEAL out of everything we've 
> accomplished in Fedora at the Summit.
> 
> So that means we need to be done with enough time to put a nice bow around 
> Fedora and get the DVDs made before the Summit.
> 
> I like the idea of April 9th, April 16th at the absolute latest.
> 
> Given our tendency to slip our release dates, if those dates are *HARD* 
> and that means we have to pick a date toward the end of March to guarantee 
> we make the April one, that's fine.

+1

With 4 weeks for each test cycle that would mean:

January 02 -- Test 1
January 30 -- Test 2
February 27 -- Test 3
March 27 -- Final Release

January 02 is probably to hard to reach, so we should cut one cycle from 
four to three weeks. Which one? test3 maybe?

CU
thl