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

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:08:25PM -0500, John Poelstra wrote:
> 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.

I sent email to Kara Schiltz re-pinging.  I suspect the Red Hat web
team may also need to weigh in since the redhat.com front page
reflects Fedora release content on release day as well.

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