Fedora 13 Go/No-Go Date--no looking back

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 08:00:30AM -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
> Mel Chua said the following on 11/24/2009 08:01 PM Pacific Time:
> >> If we were to move the "Go/No-Go" meeting closer to 2010-04-22 by a day
> >> or two (say TUES 2010-04-21 or WED 2010-04-20) would that cause problems
> >> for any of the teams if we were to declare on one of those dates that we
> >> were NOT releasing on the originally scheduled date?
> > 
> > Marketing would be fine. By that point in time, we should really have 
> > all our deliverables lined up (now that we've got the hang of how a 
> > cycle should go) so it's just a matter of getting the nod to pull the 
> > lever and push things out.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for feedback so far.  What about with the PR work that Red Hat 
> helps syndicate on our behalf?  Would they be okay with six or seven day 
>   notice of change of plans?

I've posed just that question to Kara Schiltz in Red Hat, who works PR
for Fedora.  I may need to ask for the opinions of a few additional
people, including the Red Hat web team that runs redhat.com.

The redhat.com web site advertises new Fedora releases for several
weeks starting on release day, with Fedora banners and updated
material about the Project and the distro.  That might need to be
taken into account as well, because obviously a delay might put us in
conflict with some other front page material.  It hasn't happened yet;
we've always been able to work out changes in schedule with a minimum
of fuss, but I'd just want someone to tell us they'd continue to be
flexible in the future. :-)

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