On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 20:59 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
Mark McLoughlin said the following on 07/24/2009 05:55 AM Pacific Time:
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 21:09 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-releng-tasks.html http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-releng.ics
In the F-11 schedule, we had 85 days between Feature Freeze and GA. And then GA slipped by two weeks. In the F-12 schedule, we now have 99 days between Feature Freeze and GA.
For Fedora 12 An extra week was added to accommodate Linux plumbers conference, etc...https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/1271
In addition there are four weeks in the Fedora 12 schedule for Alpha (previously known as Beta) versus the three weeks in Fedora 11--this was an oversight in the setting of the Fedora 11 schedule which did not allow for three weekly snapshots.
Okay, the extra two weeks are to allow for (rel-eng?) people being missing during plumbers and to allow for a third snapshot between alpha and beta.
That makes sense on the face of it, but the end result for developers is a release cycle split into a 49 day development period followed by a 99 day stablization period. That's quite conservative for a bleeding edge distro.
Constructive suggestion for the next cycle - we should go back to a shorter gap between Feature Freeze and GA.
Cheers, Mark.