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Can Fedora Ship on Time?

Can Fedora Ship on Time?

Posted Sep 6, 2010 13:52 UTC (Mon) by mmcgrath (subscriber, #44906)
In reply to: Can Fedora Ship on Time? by mmcgrath
Parent article: Can Fedora Ship on Time?

I should be more clear here. Trying to force a deadline is only part of the problem. You're looking at the deadline as the problem and generally it's not.

Missing a deadline is a symptom of the problem:

1) Changes get made later in the cycle instead earlier.
2) We try to cram too much stuff into a release

The stance that slipping is a feature opposed to just forcing a deadline would be true if people if people were arguing for forcing a deadline but AFAIK no one is. What the discussion is about is how to fix 1 and 2 above so we make the deadline naturally.


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