PRDs/Tech Specs to formal Change Proposals and Change submission deadline

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 06:38 -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On 02/27/2014 11:32 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > > at yesterday's FESCo meeting, it was agreed on setting deadlines
> > > for Change submission for Fedora 21 [1] and to process PRDs into
> > > Change proposals.
> > 
> > It can be hard to come up with Change proposals without knowing the F21
> > schedule and how much time we have for implementing them. Is there any
> > chance FESCo could come up with a tentative schedule first?
> > 
> > For example, if F21 is going to be released in August, we'd propose
> > GNOME 3.12 as a Change, but if it's going to be released in October /
> > November, it would likely be GNOME 3.14 instead.
> 
> One possibility - and I'd say preferred - is to mention both options
> in the Change proposal, with both versions schedules. Based on that,
> the decision could be, that we would wait for 3.14, if Workstation
> WG would say it's preferred option, or some development has to happen
> upstream first for Fedora 21/Next.
> 
> Tentative schedule is - GA no earlier than in August. Realistic, expect
> October. I understand it's hard to plan for both sides - FESCo and
> developers. But expect the timeframe of August to October. In case the
> scope of the release would be bigger, we can slip more. I'd just like
> to avoid changing the GA date once a week without a real data. I'm
> going to upload draft schedule how F21 would look like for different
> release dates.
> 
> Btw. Change proposal is not something set in stone, but it should
> be living document (of course in cooperation with FESCo).

Just as a personal opinion, it makes all kinds of sense to me to just
sync F21 release with GNOME 3.14. I can't really see how releasing a
month before it comes out is a good idea at all. We don't have some kind
of urgent imperative to get F21 out as fast as possible. We have all
kinds of other changes planned for it; more time is only going to help
them get done better. Why not just say "OK, we'll ship F21 with GNOME
3.14 and schedule it no earlier than needed for that"?
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