Matthew Miller said the following on 09/15/2010 07:57 AM Pacific Time: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:37:55PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: >> I'm a bit confused. You spend the rest of the mail talking about when >> the feature freeze is for F15, but I'm not sure why. As long as F15 is >> open and it's not frozen (which it obviously isn't, yet) you can start >> doing development in it. As John P said, we've already started approving >> features for F15. So right now you can submit a feature for F15, have it >> approved, and start committing it. What is it that makes you say it's >> 'not the current feature process'? > > The current process says you *can* start now, but the Feature Submission > Deadline isn't until two weeks before Feature Freeze, which is in turn right > before the Alpha. > I don't recall any situation where someone submitted a feature at the deadline without having done anything and then scrambling for two weeks to finish by feature freeze. > One *can* start developing features at any time, but there's nothing in the > process that says one *should* do it earlier, and in fact, the late > deadlines imply a defacto standard last-minute approach. This isn't helped > by the description of the Feature Submission Deadline as not being really a > deadline at all: "FESCo will consider features proposed after this deadline > on an exception basis." > Exceptions have been few and far between, and only granted, to my knowledge, for features that were 100% complete. Those deadlines are set in such a way as to put as much development time as possible into a release schedule. From a release engineering perspective (the team proposing the schedules for approval by FESCo) it was determined that this was the highest value. John -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
