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

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 11/09/2012 09:21 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> We just just have feature submission deadline, feature approval
>> >deadline, then we work on approved features until they are done and then
>> >give releng/marketing x time to prepare for release. that means we can
>> >have 5 month release cycle or 7 or 9 month release cycle which gives us
>> >the flexibility to integrate features properly into the release before
>> >delivering into the hands of our end users and we don't have to worry
>> >about "contingency plans" anymore
> Well, both models have been in use in the software industry for decades,
> and there are generally agreed pros and cons to both. The biggest cons
> of feature-based schedules are that the release cycles tend to get
> longer and longer because no-one feels any urgency to ship and instead
> just start packing in more and more features, and that users don't have
> a reliable schedule to follow in planning their deployments. Of course,
> if we delay our supposedly-time-based-releases too much and too often,
> we can wind up with all the cons of both approaches and none of the
> pros...

I'm pretty sure we can bring fourth the whip if that turns out to be the 
case or simply say that an release can be no longer then X months or a 
full year and the only one way we can find out is to take the leap for 3 
releases and if feature-based release is not the case we scrap it and 
return back to the time-based one or merge the experience from both and 
come up with some kind of hybrid between both of these

JBG