3 development process improvements

[Florian La Roche]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:55:45PM -0500, Max Spevack wrote:
> It is very rare that Fedora developers actually talk to each other on 
> the phone (as opposed to IRC), but jkeating, mmcgrath, and I were just 
> having a quick chat.
> 
> Three general points that I jotted down for further email discussion:
> 
> (1) pick a release name sooner in the cycle so that artwork, marketing 
> materials, and web content can be finished sooner.
> 
> (2) get web content finished at a specific deadline in the schedule 
> (maybe same as string freeze?)
> 
> (3) more dedicated feature QA/smoke-testing.  Ask feature owners, as we 
> get to the pre-release time, to do a fresh install and sanity check 
> their feature to make sure it looks and operates the way it should.
> 
> Just some suggestions for further discussion here, or on 
> fedora-devel-list.


Hello Max,

I longer time between release candidates and the final release
would be great. Trees are too long broken during that timeframe.

regards,

Florian La Roche