slowing down the development schedule for a release.

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 06:47:31PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> I need to update the documentation. But we need to get to the point
> where the releng side is transparent and just happens. The crazy
> schedules we have had since f18 have allowed zero time for Release
> Engineering and QA to do much in the line of development. this is
> entirely a failure of FESCo

Without spinning the wheel of blame -- at Flock, we talked about slowing
down the crazy train a little bit, probably not for F20 at this point but
for F21, specifically so we all have a chance to work on those kind of
things.


> > resources and or bother to keep spins standing on their own to feets
> > so to speak.
> I think we can implement what is needed in F20. Releng stopped propping
> up spins quite a few releases ago. we have not shipped things that
> failed to compose. but things that failed to work have shipped. the
> burden on releng really is minimal.

So, off-topic for this thread, but let's collect things which we can change
which _are_ burdensome for releng or otherwise cause bottlenecks, and put
them on the plan for fixing during a theoretical longer release.


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