We (Fedora Release Engineering) would like to propose a schedule for F11. The reason I'm bringing this to F-A-B is that it is a departure from our typical May1/Oct31 release dates. This is due to the month~ delay that Fedora 10 has had already due to the break in. Before I get to the schedule itself, I want to explain where we are coming from, and what some of the drivers for this schedule are. Fedora releases typically have a 6 month development cycle. We target specific dates for the release to give developers, end users, and upstreams a target to shoot for. Typically any slipping of a release we do, we just shorten the next release to make up for it. However a month's time is quite a lot to shrink. Especially because of the significance of F11. Fedora 11 will be extremely important to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (otherwise known as RHEL). RHEL 6 planning has looked to use Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 as releases to work out new technologies and features that are desired in RHEL 6. This includes a lot of upstream work that is being done, and targeted to land in these two releases. That planning was also planning for a full 6 month Fedora 11 cycle, and Red Hat resources were lined up to take advantage of this, by participating more in the development cycle, in the testing cycle, in bugfixing, etc... This is a good thing. However, if we were to take a month out of Fedora 11s schedule to hit that May 1 date, we would shorten the amount of time we get the RH attention, and we shorten the amount of time we give our developers to land the pre-planned features. This is not a good thing. These are not just RH developers for RH features either, it's all developers for all features. But wait, if we pad Fedora 11 by a month, what about Fedora 12? Excellent question. We (releng) feel that if we set up Fedora 11 with a full 6 month schedule, and now set up F12 to take in some of that slip and shoot for Oct 31 release of F12, all interested parties will have a lot more time to prepare for a short release. In fact, we could even focus more on polish issues in F12 than large sweeping features, but I leave that up to the developers. We just feel that we can better plan for a short release in the F12 time frame than we can in the F11 time frame, and by doing so we can get back to our May 1, Oct 31 established dates which work pretty well in the Linux ecosystem. Of course, setting an F12 schedule now would be kind of silly given that we don't know what will happen during F11 (hey, look at what happened to F10!), but we can at least have an idea of what we'd like to do in F12. Long story short, here is a simple schedule we'd like to present for F11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway/F11ProposedSchedule Note that it is pretty basic, only a few dates are called out. Also those dates are somewhat subject to change. We're mostly interested in the end date of Tuesday May 26th. The intra-schedule dates are given mostly for reference, and we'll still need to spend some time vetting them against trade shows, holidays, etc... We'll also be filling in all the other details that you typically see in a Fedora schedule, once we reach an agreed upon strategy for F11/F12. I'd like to see some conversation on this (or none if you all agree with me) and a conclusion met within the next 2 weeks, that is at or before the release of Fedora 10. Thank you for your time and thoughts. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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