Historically, the release time on a given release date has been 10:00am Eastern time.[1] However, Jesse Keating, who's one of our release engineers, is now on Pacific time, which makes this 7:00am by his clock. Are we going to stay with 10:00am Eastern (1400 or 1500 UTC), or should we consider a change?
= = [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:44 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Historically, the release time on a given release date has been 10:00am Eastern time.[1] However, Jesse Keating, who's one of our release engineers, is now on Pacific time, which makes this 7:00am by his clock. Are we going to stay with 10:00am Eastern (1400 or 1500 UTC), or should we consider a change?
Jesse has a small child.
He's up at 7am anyway....
-sv
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Seth Vidal skvidal@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:44 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Historically, the release time on a given release date has been 10:00am Eastern time.[1] However, Jesse Keating, who's one of our release engineers, is now on Pacific time, which makes this 7:00am by his clock. Are we going to stay with 10:00am Eastern (1400 or 1500 UTC), or should we consider a change?
Jesse has a small child.
He's up at 7am anyway....
-sv
Will it help if we send him a six pack? Seems like a fair trade for a release.
On 04.09.2008 18:05, Richard Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:01 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Will it help if we send him a six pack? Seems like a fair trade for a release.
I don't think anyone would mind slipping the release a few hours.
It matters a whole lot for the press in Europe -- likely one of the reasons why big announcements from international companies based in the US often tend to be 10:00am Eastern time (+/- one hour) -- that way you get the press people from Europe (still working) and the US (started working) in one go and get more attention on the internet within a few hours.
Two or three hours later than 10am EST most computer journalists in Europe likely are at home or on their way home; when they start working on the next day it's old news then and some might just drop it.
IOW: My vote goes to stick to 10am EST, at least for the real Fedora releases.
Cu knurd
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:01 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Will it help if we send him a six pack? Seems like a fair trade for a release.
Depends on what it's a six pack of. Beer? Ok, Root Beer, better. Couches? not so much.
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:44 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Historically, the release time on a given release date has been 10:00am Eastern time.[1] However, Jesse Keating, who's one of our release engineers, is now on Pacific time, which makes this 7:00am by his clock. Are we going to stay with 10:00am Eastern (1400 or 1500 UTC), or should we consider a change?
Why not around 12pm EST? That would put PST around 9am and anywhere in between is still pretty close to 10 still, and Jessee can have cup or two of coffee at least by then.
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:44 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Historically, the release time on a given release date has been 10:00am Eastern time.[1] However, Jesse Keating, who's one of our release engineers, is now on Pacific time, which makes this 7:00am by his clock. Are we going to stay with 10:00am Eastern (1400 or 1500 UTC), or should we consider a change?
Staggering into the (home) office an hour earlier then I normally get up on release days isn't that big of a deal. I'd say we keep things as they are as it seems to work well with EU press (thanks for that info Thorsten!). But thanks for thinking of my sanity (: