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

[drago01]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> 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.

Does one day really make that much of a difference? Lets just slip one
day for the beta (release on Wednesday instead of Tuesday) then.