The slip down memory lane

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:

> On Thursday, August 12, 2010 09:33:17 pm Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Thu, 12.08.10 13:19, Mike McGrath (mmcgrath at redhat.com) wrote:
> > > Since 2006 I counted 18 slips (I think one or two of those may just be a
> > > single slip listed twice).  Lets not yell, lets not flame war, lets not
> > > point fingers.  How can we fix this?  It's clearly not one group or one
> > > individual or we'd just go talk to them.  This is a collective failure.
> > >
> > > Since 2006 we've slipped at least 16-18 weeks by my count. That's more
> > > than half of a full release cycle.
> >
> > While I side with mclasen here and believe that it is a strength of
> > Fedora that we take the liberty to let cycles slip rather then
> > compromise quality, I want to mention one thing: on opensuse the "base"
> > system has a different schedule then the rest of the OS. i.e. the
> > kernel, gcc, glibc and the low-level tools freeze first, while
> > everything else may be hacked on a couple of weeks more. Maybe that's
> > something to adopt for Fedora as well?
>
> Agreed. On both. Slips are not problems (if it's not 6 months slip :D). Slips
> happens and are regular solution.
> But for core system freeze - it's actually THE MUST! For us, booting system with
> working Xorg is the point where we can start working on our packages and
> testing!!!
>

I'll admit, this is a convenient view to have.  The problem is we're not
in high school anymore.  We're professionals.  We're expected to set and
keep schedules because people besides ourselves rely on those schedules.
There are other distros that set and keep schedules better then we do..
probably all of them.  I'm just saying with proper planning it's possible.

	-Mike