Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 21:07 -0600, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:
> Oh my goodness. This is the highest amount of slippage I've seen in
> quite some time. What is wrong with Fedora? 

The new anaconda UI and related features are more or less entirely the
cause of the slip. Secure boot support is also not done yet (waiting on
the signature for shim to get sorted out by legal), though I don't know
whether FESCo yet absolutely decided that has to be in for Beta.

> The slippage is getting worse each and every single release. I love
> Fedora and all, but this is absolutely ridiculous...

It isn't, if you look at the facts, the slips for the last few releases
have been fairly similar and there's no pattern of them getting longer.
This release is special because of the major anaconda change, which it's
turning out after the fact could have been organized better (hindsight
is 20/20).

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