Fedora 18 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Thursday, November 22 @ 20:00 UTC (3pm Eastern, 12pm Pacific)

[Ric Wheeler]

On 11/20/2012 03:11 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 21:06 +0100, drago01 wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 11:15 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:14:08AM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>>>>> Btw. Thanksgiving conflict is known, but we decided not to move
>>>>> Go/No-Go to Wednesday because of limited time for testing, let me
>>>>> know in case of (strong) objections.
>>>> I really think having this meeting during the second largest US holiday
>>>> is a very poor idea, especially since almost everybody working on
>>>> anything we're likely to decide no-go for is in the US, as are many of
>>>> the people whose views will be needed.
>>>>
>>>> Also note that even if they can show up /sometime on Thanksgiving day/,
>>>> which is unlikely enough to begin with, many if not most families
>>>> celebrate with a mid-afternoon meal.  That's right where this meeting is
>>>> scheduled for.
>>> I was one who slightly favoured Thursday. As Jaroslav said, the
>>> reasoning is that this week the extra day could be *really important*,
>>> with the timing of the fedup work. We are aiming to build RC1 today;
>>> realistically speaking the chances that fedup works perfectly first time
>>> are not high, so I was figuring on needing at least an RC2. Given that,
>>> Wednesday seemed over-optimistic to do the meeting. I think it's
>>> understood that we won't make a controversial Go call on Thursday; it'll
>>> be either a clear Go, otherwise slip.
>> What about Friday?
> I think we agreed previously that Thursday was as late as we could go
> while giving time for staging and so on. QA could do go/no-go 10 minutes
> before release, but other groups need more time, so it's up to them to
> decide how far we can push it.
>
> Friday is also a holiday in the U.S., I think, BTW - the notorious
> 'black Friday'...

Friday is a normal work day for most people (although some people will take it 
off to get a longer weekend :))

Ric