Some recent changes

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

> On 10/20/2009 07:23 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 12:13 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>>> Last minute is hardly accurate when we still have 4 weeks to go to the
>>>> actual release. Thats 1/6 of the entire devel cycle.
>>> 
>>> Small point of fact. It's 4 weeks until the release date. We have to
>>> have things composed and staged to mirrors nearly a week prior to that,
>>> and thus in RC stage a few days before that. You most certainly do not
>>> have 4 weeks of bugfixing left. I'd prefer all changes are done by Nov
>>> 10th so that we can enter the RC stage and only pick up changes that
>>> would prevent the release of Fedora 12.
>>> 
>>> Fedora 12 was a compressed release, we knew that creating the schedule
>>> and going into the release. That means we have to cut some corners and
>>> make some sacrifices in order to get back to our May day / Halloween
>>> schedule.
>>> 
>>> Now if we want to change that from a 6 month dirge to something more
>>> stretched out, I would welcome that, in addition to the other changes we
>>> are making to maximize both development time and polish time.
>>> 
>> 
>> We could try a 9-month release schedule like we did with FC5. I seem to
>> recall that ended in tears, though.
>> 
>
> Nice one, would that also get us to a 19-month support cycle? ;-)
>

:)

You are a clever one!

:)

-sv