On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Based on discussion at Flock, on the devel mailing list, and in the FESCo > meeting, we are looking for feedback on the idea of a longer release cycle > for Fedora 21 -- not (right now at least) the bigger question of the 6-month > cycle overall, but just, right now, slowing down for a release to get some > things in order. > > Specifically, both Release Engineering and QA have clear needs (and even > plans for) greater automatiion, but are also incredibly busy simply doing > the things they need to do _now_ to get the release out the door. > > So, FESCo would like to see some specifics, like "If we had one week with > nothing else to worry about, we could have automated generation and upload > of cloud images" (to pick an example I personally care about). Or "with six > months of overall delay, we could have continuous integration testing of a > key subset of rawhide". Or "we could spend a couple of weeks and automate > the new package and review workflow". > > What Infrastructure projects would be helped by this? Web and design team, > would slowing down the release focus allow time to work on, oh, say, getting > the Wiki beautiful (or does it not matter)? What else? > > As we look at Fedora.next ideas and possibly decide to start implementation > in the F21 timeframe, we will likely find _new_ things that take specific > work. Let's not worry about that right now. What things we do _now_ could be > improved with the investment of some effort? Given that most of this stuff can be done parallel to the release (it is not like everyone is busy for full 6 months during the release cycle) I doubt this gains us much if anything. People will use the addtional time to do what they always do which means we just get a release with roughly the changes / churn of 2 releases. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
