The slip down memory lane

[Till Maas]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 01:06:46PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Peter Jones wrote:
> 
> > On 08/12/2010 02:39 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >
> > >>>>>>> "BN" == Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> writes:
> > >>
> > >> BN> I can't help but note that the slips have become more frequent as we
> > >> BN> started to actually *have* release criteria to test against. We
> > >> BN> didn't slip nearly as much when we weren't testing it.
> > >>
> > >> To me this implies that we should begin testing earlier (or, perhaps,
> > >> never stop testing) and treat any new failure as an event of
> > >> significance.  It's tough to meet a six month cycle if we spend half of
> > >> it telling people to expect everything to be broken.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Possibly also stop changing earlier?
> >
> > The window for changes is already far too short.
> >
> 
> How long is that window anyway?

It should be about 6 months, but from F13 branch to F14 branch it was only 5
months and one week. Two of these months were after the F13 final release. F15
is not yet scheduled afaics, so it is unknown how long the window for F15 will
stay open.

References:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/Schedule

Regards
Till
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