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One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule
Today we held our readiness meeting for the Alpha release of Fedora 14. As you may know, this is a meeting with representatives from the Development, Release Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams. In these meetings, we evaluate the list of blocker bugs and give a "go" or "no go" signal on the state of the Fedora release. You can read the minutes of the meeting here[1], but in short the decision was made that the release has not passed its release criteria[2]. When this happens, the entire release schedule is slipped by a week, and we work to get things in better shape for the next meeting. We'll get the schedule[3] updated in the next day or so, but in general this means that our general availability date for Fedora 14 has now gone from October 26th to November 2nd. During composition of any further release candidates, the Fedora Release Engineering and Quality Assurance teams plan to be quite conservative in the updates they pull into the release candidates, so that we don't inadvertently create more blocker bugs. I'd also like to thank those who have really pushed hard to try to get the Alpha into shape. In particular, the Release Engineering team put in a lot of extra hours to compose our release candidates, and the QA team did a fantastic job of testing the release candidates and knocking out as many blocker bugs as possible. While I regret the fact that the schedule has slipped, I'm confident it was the right decision to ensure that Fedora 14 is a rock-solid release. [1] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-1... [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_Release_Cri... [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader -- announce mailing list announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce (Log in to post comments)
One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule Posted Aug 12, 2010 16:52 UTC (Thu) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]
It's always good to see Fedora keep to the expected schedule for announcing the one week release slip.
One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule Posted Aug 12, 2010 17:36 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
The first slip is done, now there is only one more slip left and it will be ready for release.
Good Posted Aug 12, 2010 20:19 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
I want to congratulate the Fedora team for its scrupulous choice. For contrast, we can look at Ubuntu which chose not to slip, and instead to ship a flawed product with a known fix, and a patch a week later. There is much to be said for frequent, timely releases (contrast Debian's months or years of delay; I run unstable), and it's always hard to decide what bug is bad enough to slip for, but a week, or two, of slip is better than widespread frustration with a buggy release.
Agree, good Posted Aug 13, 2010 13:14 UTC (Fri) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link] It's good when distros remember that the purpose of a release is for *users*. Users are not served by gross bugs in a new release. Two weeks after release, few will care that there was a one-week slip.
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