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

[Jesse Keating]

On 11/09/2012 12:05 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 09:35:42AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On 11/08/2012 11:31 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> Yes. This is_absolutely_  a feature. A complete rewrite of a core and
>>> non-optional component cannot be done ad hoc without planning. One
>>> blindingly obvious reason for this in the current situation is that
>>> we're still thrashing around trying to figure out how to build and ship
>>> the initramfs that fedup needs. This is exactly the kind of thing that
>>> needs to go through the feature process so that the relevant groups -
>>> releng, infra - know about it. I don't believe they even knew about the
>>> problem until about two weeks ago.
>>
>> I think the unfortunate thing here is that we're trying to use
>> "Feature" to handle cross team coordination.
>>
> Why unfortunate?  That is one of the two issues the Feature Process was
> created to address.
>
> If it's unfortunate because the two issues the feature process attempts to
> solve don't really have as much in common as once thought, that's cool and
> probably the number one thing that everyone would like to fix -- I'm just
> checking that you don't have some other idea in mind.

Don't have anything else in mind.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!