F17 QA schedule modification proposal

[Robyn Bergeron]

On 11/29/2011 04:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, Robyn. As discussed on the test list this week and at our meeting,
> we'd like to propose the schedule modification described in
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-November/104583.html
> to the F17 QA schedule. Could you put that in there? Thanks!
Sorry - this mail got filtered in ways that are all sorts of wrong. :(

My only concern with the schedule as proposed is that we are essentially 
doing the Alpha Test Compose prior to Feature Freeze, which is the point 
where features should be testable. I've popped in the existing dates 
below, but I just want to point out that I think we know from past 
experience that a lot of features don't hit their feature freeze 
deadline until *on the actual deadline*, which means that we are 
essentially testing a compose of stuff a full week before I expect 
people to finish procrastinating and getting their stuff done.  We still 
have the actual release candidate after that, but I don't want us to 
basically pull in a date and find out that it's not helpful because all 
the breaking pieces get pulled in/finished after the test compose date.

Pre-Alpha Rawhide Acceptance Test Plan #1    2012-01-19
Feature Submission Deadline		     2012-01-24	
Pre-Alpha Rawhide Acceptance Test Plan #2    2012-01-26
Test Alpha 'Test Compose'                    2012-01-31
Feature Freeze (Testable|Complete)	     2012-02-07
Fedora 17 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting             2012-02-22

Test Beta 'Test Compose'                     2012-03-06
Fedora 17 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting              2012-03-28

Test 'Final' Test Compose (TC)               2012-04-09
Fedora 17 Final Go/No-Go Meeting             2012-05-01


Or it's possible that I'm nuts and it's not worth worrying over.  :)  We 
do the Test Compose for Beta a week before Features are required to be 
at 100%, but of course, they should already be testable/complete at 
alpha, so the breakage scenario in Beta is far smaller, theoretically.

-r