F21 System Wide Change: Cockpit Management Console

[drago01]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 04/15/2014 11:29 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
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>>> Special Requests: Cockpit would like to request an additional
>>> 2-4 weeks on the Fedora 21 schedule to ensure completion of the
>>> core functionality.
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>> So, you want to push final release out to november? Or can you
>> expand on what you mean by 'on the Fedora 21 schedule' ?
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> When I spoke with the Cockpit developers, there was concern that they
> would not quite be "feature-complete" by the currently-targeted Alpha
> date. In order to have a little breathing room, it was decided that we
> should request additional time there. Perhaps we could shave a week
> off off each of the Beta and Final deadlines to accommodate an
> additional two weeks on Alpha? (Of course, that carries risks on test
> coverage as well...)
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> The purpose of requesting the additional time was to alert FESCo that
> there is a risk of delaying the Alpha release for this Change (if
> approved) and communicating that up front.

Instead of delaying the whole release even more ... would it make
sense to simply
ask for this feature to have an exception to let it land in beta
instead of alpha?
OTOH this would kind of limit testing time for it.