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

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 14:47 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 06:02:10PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > Aside from that - I can understand your frustration that you think
> > people are chinwagging and not helping, but my point is kind of that you
> > (anaconda team) have brought that on yourselves.
> 
> I'm not on the Anaconda team. That's my point. When bugs threaten the 
> release of the distribution then *everyone* involved in the distribution 
> should be willing to work on them, not just insist that it's up to the 
> developers currently working on it. I've just spent two days of vacation 
> working on this because it's clear that more developer contribution 
> would be useful and because I actually want us to release Fedora 18. 
> We're not obliged to sit here pointing at a sinking ship when we could 
> do something to avoid that ship from sinking.

Correction accepted - I tend to think of you as an honorary member
because you always pop up in #anaconda :) But my point stands too: there
would have been much more co-operation and contribution if fedup had
gone through the feature process correctly, as that is one thing the
feature process achieves.
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Adam Williamson
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