Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

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On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:58:59PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 11/08/2012 05:56 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >It turns out that software development is hard. It's especially hard
> >when you have a hugely complicated system with no central management and
> >no real incentive for most of the skilled workers to cooperate on
> >sections of the project that influence each other. It's nigh-near
> >impossible when you have the same set of people tasked to simultaneously
> >stabalise an upcoming release and do the development work for the
> >forthcoming release. The miracle isn't that Anaconda is taking longer
> >than desirable. It's that it's as close to finished as it is.
> 
> Is it not just time to form a "CoreOS" SIG which include Anaconda,
> the storage developers, The kernel, Dracut,/Systemd/Udev, and
> arguably selinux and the network guys as well to ensure "proper"
> communication of changes between teams responsible for "core" (
> installation/boot/network handling ) functionality within the
> project?

Whatever we call it, I agree that we need a formal process to make sure all
of these components are on the same page and aware of what each other is
doing.

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