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

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 05:44 -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 06:31 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > > The new anaconda UI and related features are more or less
> > > > entirely the
> > > > cause of the slip.
> > > 
> > > This shows that those changes should not have been done, or at
> > > least not in
> > > this way.
> > 
> > I think it's widely agreed by now that they could have been done
> > better,
> > the question is now exactly how we can improve the process.
> 
> We have bigger issue with features that are OUT OF the process,
> not communicated at all. If you take a look on New Installer UI,
> it fits current design, it was a late as the scope was bigger
> than Anaconda team thought but it's there.
> 
> But the new upgrade process - it should be standalone feature,
> we missed dracut feature, same for LVM in Anaconda (again, not
> UI), live medias etc. So most of the problems were caused not by 
> proposed/accepted features but by real features we weren't aware of.
> 
> How to avoid it? Honestly I don't know. 

Well, a more stringent review process for the New UI feature would
likely have identified this problem ahead of time.
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