On 14 November 2016 at 12:06, Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/10/2016 10:09 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > FWIW, I did not really get the sense at all that people were voting for > it as a blocker purely on the grounds that "we can get a fix in at the > last minute". A one week slip might feel short to you, I dunno, but I > think most release process people think it's a really long time and > hate it (hence the pressure to 'hero' sometimes). Having a *whole week* > to fix a blocker and respin and test, frankly, feels like quite a lot > of time, in a Fedora context. > > If there's a consensus that issues are small enough so that the slip can be > shorter, perhaps it'd be appropriate to consider something between the > all-nighter 'hero-ing' and full week slip? Specifically, you guys make a > technical decision that a known fix, respin and test will take two days, so > you just postpone the release by that time, unless that specific process > does not go as expected? Not really. There are multiple amounts of stuff that has to get done to get a release out the door with a lot of it in human relations: let the mirrors know, let the various news groups know, field questions from press, get usergroups ready. Trying to move it later in the week from the Tuesdays screws up a lot of people's set timelines. > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
