The slip down memory lane

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 14:50:38 -0400,
  Nathaniel McCallum <nathaniel at natemccallum.com> wrote:
> 
> One thing I am curious about is why, when slipping for an Alpha target,
> the whole schedule slips.  Can't we just take a week out of the Beta
> cycle?  The amount of testing time is roughly the same.

We've tried that in the past and it didn't work. Slipping the whole
schedule right away is better than slipping piecewise when it comes to
planning.