On 12/12/06, Max Spevack <mspevack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > January 02 is probably to hard to reach, so we should cut one cycle from > four to three weeks. Which one? test3 maybe? We talked about this in the Board meeting this morning. Here was the proposal we came up with (modified for a Tuesday release, not a Monday release), working backward: RH Summit May 9-11 Release April 24 (exactly 6 months after FC6) Gold April 17 Test3 March 27 Test2 February 27 FudCon February 9-11 (including hackfest) Test1 January 30 Not a lot of slip time in there (at least, not with the RH Summit as a target). Comments?
[long-ish time reader, first-time poster... see bottom for list intro.] Has Fedora, the community, actively post-mortemed past slips? If so, what were the most likely causes of past slips, and what steps are you taking to avoid them this time around? If not, it seems like, given the particularly hard deadline for this release, this is a good thing to talk about now, rather than later :) For what it is worth, my sense as an outsider is that past releases have lacked discipline about flagging and backing out problematic features, and have failed to aggressively seek community quality assurance early in the process, which has led to slips. But obviously those are very much external impressions that should be taken with a grain of salt, particularly given that my biases are very much in favor of very early and aggressive QA. Luis Introduction bits, shamelessly plagiarized from my introduction to the now-defunct fedora-advisors-list: Dramatic Life Story: Hi, I'm Luis Villa. Most of you may know me from such runaway successes as 'Bugmaster[1]', 'Bugmaster II: Evolution', 'Bugmaster III: GNOME 2.0', and perhaps from less noted work such as 'Bugmaster IV', in which your hero had his ass handed to him by Novell Linux Desktop. I had a permanent role in 'All My Monkeys[2]' as Louie, the lovable but moronic zookeeper, but left after the management decided to take the show more upscale and downplay my character. I've also played a recurring role in 'Days of Our GNOME Foundation Board[3]' as Dr. Luis Villa, IV, muckraker and all-around scoundrel, but with a heart of gold. My head^wsculpted likeness is in the GNOME Planet Walk of Fame[4]. I spent a year as Sr. Geek in Residence at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and am now in my first year as a law school at Columbia Law School, where I intend to study intellectual property law and other areas of law related to online, voluntary communities. Dramatic (by which I meant two-timing) Technical Story: While I am admittedly right ATM an Ubuntu user ;) I'm a fairly long-time Red Hat user (from the Donnie Barnes Is Something Like A Foreign Language release- 5.1? 5.0? up until a few days after Novell bought SUSE.) Dramatic (by which I mean boring) reason for being on this list: Obviously I have a lot of community background, and I know a lot of the Red Hat and Fedora team and am good friends with them. I'm interested in helping advise Fedora not just because I want to help them out, but also because I firmly believe that having successful Linux distros that are truly community-centric is a must for the continue health and success of Free Software. [1] http://tieguy.org/talks/LCA-2005-paper-html/ [2] http:///www.ximian.com/ [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2004-December/msg00004.html [3] http://planet.gnome.org/ _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
