Another slip in the FC6 schedule

ronald rwarsow at online.de
Wed Oct 18 22:09:13 UTC 2006


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 October 2006 16:29, ronald wrote:
...

> Without release dates it is extremely hard to manage feature freezes and 
> translation freezes etc.. so we set dates.  We try to line those dates up 
> with things like gnome releases and kernel releases and such.  Now, the tree 
> isn't always in the best of shape when those dates come around, but we try 
> hard to make those dates.  Sometimes we have to push the date out.  Sometimes 
> we have to drop a functionality or feature.  The reason 'draft draft draft' 
> is on the page is purely so that people don't get a hard expectation on our 
> release dates and plan for some flexibility.  It would be insane to hold 
> Fedora to a hard and fast release date, but at the same time it would be 
> insane to not have ANY dates set and make something happen.
> 
> 
thx, but there is no need to explain it to me. i caught that already. 
it's a compromise and i can put myself in your place, but there are some 
effects. at least increased mail traffic. therefore i'll stop here.

-- 

    ronald




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