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 does sound inconsistent. Which releases did this happen for and
where did the discussion take place?
John