On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 13:09 -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
> On 11/25/2009 05:58 AM, Mike Chambers wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:44 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:57 -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The basic structure of Fedora 13 schedule has been set and will
>>>> soon go
>>>> to FESCo for final approval. Once that happens I will build
>>>> proposed
>>>> schedules for: Documentation, Translation, Design, Marketing,
>>>> and Websites.
>>>>
>>>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule
>>>>
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-13/f-13-releng-tasks.html
>>>>
>>>> If you have constructive feedback for altering or enhancing the
>>>> schedule, now is the time to give it. If it would be helpful to
>>>> create
>>>> a public Desktop specific schedule I'd be glad to help with that
>>>> as well.
>>>
>>> I don't think I have much constructive feedback, other than that
>>> the
>>> development phase seems very short, with holidays and whatnot.
>>
>> I was just looking at that as well, and have came up with 5 months
>> of
>> development/testing (including from date F12 was released) for the
>> cycle? Just curious, isn't that kind of short? And as stated
>> above,
>> not even realy 5 months, since all the major holidays are included
>> in
>> this cycle.
>>
>
> Fedora does not usually factor in holidays. I've attempted to
> include
> them in previous schedule drafts, but they were dismissed by others
> as
> not being relevant to Fedora since we don't have official work days,
> office hours, etc.. Granted if a serious freeze or release date
> occurred during a major holiday period I'm sure they would
> reconsider,
> but our release dates are such that they don't.
I've seen plenty of earlier discussion where rel-eng was carefully
trying to triangulate the release date around thanksgiving or easter.
It seems somewhat unfair to say that rel-eng get to take holidays, but
developers are expected to work straight through... :-)
That's not it at all. We try to avoid any deadline that would fall on
or near a major holiday. That's more for the developers than releng.
> The flip side of this is Jesse's mention in another post about the
> branch for Fedora 13 being open before the end of Fedora 12 and the
> thus
> development being longer than five months. I'm not sure how this
> works
> out in reality for development--if they can really take advantage
> of the
> early opening of the next release or if 95% of their energy remains
> focused on the release at hand.
If we want to get away from the 'just a feature dump' and 'just a
beta'
monikers, we'll have to face the fact that it does not work out in
practise, at some point.
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