mass rebuild update

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 08/19/2013 02:25 PM, drago01 wrote:
> 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?

After branching, new "features"/"breakdowns" will be introduced into 
rawhide causing further instabilities and FTBFSes to rawhide.

Ralf