On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:24 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > The bulk of the Core/Extras merge has now been finished, and the Release > Engineering team has been working hard to get things back in shape for > the final F7 release. However, due to the massive nature of this > undertaking, we are not coming back online as fast as we had hoped. > > We do not have a rawhide repository available as of yet, and the release > and QA teams are not comfortable going into deep freeze at this point. > During the Release team meeting yesterday, it was decided to slip the > deep freeze date by a week at least. This will also slip the final > release of Fedora 7 by at least a week. > > Slipping a week will allow more time for the merge tree to materialize > and stabilize. Maintainers will also have more time to adjust to the > new processes involved as a result of the merge. We will also have more > time to evaluate the blocking bugs that are currently open in Bugzilla. > > While this slip is unfortunate, it is also in the best interest for the > quality of the release. Please bear with us as we strive to make this > the best release of Fedora to date! Also, given that release cycles for older Fedora releases are dependent upon the release dates of future releases, Fedora Core 5 will have it's EOL date extended the same amount of time as the Fedora 7 release slips. FYI. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
