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

[John Poelstra]

Paul W. Frields said the following on 12/01/2009 06:02 PM Pacific Time:
> 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. :-)
> 

Hi Paul,

Any chance you got a reply on this?  An answer might help in our 
discussions this weekend about finalizing the schedule.

Thanks,
John