> A few weeks back the releng team made a schedule adjustment, to make up > for lost rawhide time due to the intrusion. When we made that schedule > adjustment, we had assumed having a working rawhide within days of that > meeting, giving us a week or so worth of working rawhide to shake out > any pre-beta bugs we wanted to. > > Unfortunately, while we were able to /attempt/ rawhide creation as > scheduled, a series of software bugs and bad personnel timing has > prevented those attempts from producing usable rawhide images until > basically today (and today's are pretty shaky from what I hear). This > is not so good, as without an installable rawhide, we don't get a good > idea as to how the installer is working, and we miss out on a lot of > 'initial install' testing of software on people's systems. We get a lot > of "I upgraded from foo" type testing, which definitely has it's value, > but I feel we're missing a pretty key part of the rawhide experience. > > The Beta freeze is set for Tomorrow. That means the content that would > show up in tomorrow's rawhide would also be the content we use as the > basis of Beta. Any changes after that would have to be ran through the > releng/qa teams to be approved. > > Given the "fun" we had with Alpha, I really feel that it would be > prudent to spend a few more unfrozen days with a hopefully continually > working rawhide installer so that we can do some of that last minute > testing of what's wrong before we freeze, and hopefully have a shorter > and more productive freeze period. But this is just my opinion, and > thus I'm putting this out there for discussion. > > Feature owners in particular, I'm interested in your opinions as to if > you need a few more days to see what shape your features are in before > we freeze. Ideally the week before a freeze would have been a slow down > period, where large changes were avoided and bugfixing was focused on so > that the Beta was useful. I feel like we didn't give you a chance to do > this and it'll still feel like crash landing planes on the carrier deck > when it come to features in Beta. > > I'm interested in what the rest of you think as well, both package > owners and testers alike. If you think our schedule time would be > better spent fixing and verifying things pre-freeze and adding an extra > week to the schedule, or just freeze as things are, and potentially slip > a week during the freeze to make everything usable for the Beta (or the > third option, things are fine as they are, just freeze and release as > scheduled and stop being so paranoid). > > What say you? Wait a bit, maybe slip the release a week if you have to. Better slippage than suckage, IMHO. After the intrusion, I think users will understand. > -- > 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 -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
