Release Engineering Meeting Recap from Monday 16-APR-07

[Rahul Sundaram]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> This release was all that was discussed.  If new proposals for future
> releases come to bear, this topic can be revisited.  For now, a note
> will be placed in the Release Notes for F7 about packages potentially
> containing .fcX where X can be different from the current release.

You have just a day before the docs are frozen.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule. I am editing the 
release notes right now so if anyone has suggestions for the wording let 
me know. My proposal for the future release is essentially the same as 
the one now preferably early during the devel cycle and no later than 
the feature freeze

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-April/msg00137.html

I wanted FESCo to decide on the issue on the whole rather than just for 
this release as the last time I requested it was before the test 4 
release. That was ignored somehow it a bit too late to do rebuilds.

So let me place a request now for FESCo to consider a general approach 
on dealing with dist tags early during Fedora 8 development. Also we 
might have delta rpms by default then so the argument of lesser churn of 
packages becomes weak.

Rahul