I am not sure how hard it is to make a spin, but it seems like there it too big of a gap between spins. I know that things have been rough for a lot of people with the problems with the Fedora site. To me it seems like there should be another alpha type spin before beta. My 2 cents, Jerry Williams > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-devel-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jesse Keating > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:52 PM > To: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: fedora-devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Fedora 10 Beta Freeze coming soon > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 13:02 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > The Fedora 10 Beta freeze is scheduled for the 19th of Aug, one week and > > one day away. I know it hasn't been very long since the Alpha release, > > but that's how we roll here in the land of 6 month release cycles. > > > > Beta freeze also marks the Feature freeze, so it is very important that > > you get your features into working, testable shape by then, or be > > prepared to try your feature again for Fedora 11. > > > > We'd like to treat rawhide as a slushy freeze at this point, we'll be > > doing full composes against rawhide to test for various things and be > > ahead of the curve come actual freeze time, so we'd like you to not land > > any really dangerous changes without extensive testing first, and > > notification to the Fedora lists about your scary change. If we all > > work together we can get through the beta freeze period quickly and be > > on to the bugfixing mode after beta releases. > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule is the current > > schedule, although releng/Fesco/Board has the ability to change the > > schedule as needed. This week's meetings of the various boards, sigs, > > groups, etc.. should focus on Beta readiness. It would be good to take > > a moment to see what state your area of interest is in, and how likely > > it would be that said area of interest will be in a "testable" shape by > > the Beta freeze. If more (reasonable) time is needed, now is the time > > to let the project know so that we can effectively manage the remainder > > of our release schedule. > > > > Thanks for all your hard work in making Fedora 10 great! > > > > Well, it's been an interesting couple of weeks to say the least. > > We moved our freeze date to reflect the situation. The new freeze date > is Sept. 9, which is in 7 days. This is a friendly reminder that the > freeze is coming up, and coming up quickly. > > I realize that rawhide has been less than great lately, and we're > working quite hard to fix the issues. The installer images from the > 30th may be of use in getting rawhide installed and then updating to > what is in the public repos. See > http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide-20080830/development/ > (please only grab the installer images from there, not the entire tree) > > -- > Jesse Keating > Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! > identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
