A slight change to the freeze/release times

dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 26 17:38:00 UTC 2007


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
>   
>> So, for a proposal, I propose that we keep the current freeze day of Tuesday.  
>> This allows for the general weekend/Monday clean up and final rush for the 
>> freeze.  I propose that we move the anticipated release day to Wed/Thu, 
>> leaving it somewhat vague.  We'd like to hit Wed, but more often than not it 
>> may be Thu.  I just don't want to send a slip note every single time we miss 
>> Wed.  I also propose that we "turn on" rawhide once we release the tree to 
>> the mirrors.  This should be either Monday or Tuesday of the release week.  
>> This keeps the time development is "stifled" short, while maximizing the 
>> number of business days that we have to get the tree in shape in time for the 
>> mirrors to sync, and adjusts the schedule to something a bit closer to 
>> reality.
>>     
>
> I think we still need actual release dates for test releases - having
> 'Wednesday or Thursday' just doesn't seem right to me. Aside from that,
> looks OK.
>
>   
what about simple say Thursday = release day? if its ready on Wednesday 
it should not hurt, open the mirrors on Thursday and thats it....
> Bill
>
>   




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