mass rebuild update

[drago01]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 08/19/2013 01:32 PM, drago01 wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com>
>> > wrote:
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>> >>> Hi all,
>> >>>
>> >>> I have merged perl info f20 and started the mass rebuild.
>> >>
>> >> Hi!
>> >> A friendly reminder - "Branch Fedora 20 from Rawhide" is planned
>> >> tomorrow (2013-08-20) and "Alpha Change Deadline" is also pretty soon
>> >> as Dennis pointed out (2013-09-03).
>> Please postpone this. IMO, this is much too early.
>>
>> Also take into account what time of year it is: Summer Holidays (at
>> least in Europe).
>
> Well,
> the reason why it was scheduled so early (and already postponed by two
> weeks) are other holidays - we have to avoid hitting December, when
> everyone is on vacations :(. One week = Thanksgivings, two weeks =
> Christmas...

But what has the branch date to do with the mass rebuild? I mean can't
people fix stuff after alpha (before beta) unless the package not
working is an alpha blocker?