The slip down memory lane

[Mike McGrath]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Matthias Clasen (mclasen at redhat.com) said:
> > >   This is a collective failure.
> >
> > I'd like to question that premise. Why is it a failure if we adjust our
> > release schedule to meet our release criteria ?
>
> Well, ideally we'd be able to schedule such that we can accomplish
> our release criteria within the defined schedule without having to
> slip.
>
> I can't help but note that the slips have become more frequent as we
> started to actually *have* release criteria to test against. We
> didn't slip nearly as much when we weren't testing it. (Whether that's
> a good or bad thing is left as an exercise for the reader.)
>

Any of the QA guys have any way to measure the the most common cause of
our slips?  Is it usually stuff we're our own upstream for?  Is it
integration?  Is it bugs that were introduced months ago but only recently
found or bugs that were just introduces in the couple of weeks before
release?

	-Mike