GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 11, 2015 13:30 UTC (Wed) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
In reply to: GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog) by gowen
Parent article: GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

> ...and Fedora 23 will not be released until winter 2015 at the earliest.

Fall 2015, going by calendar seasons. Even F21 didn't slip all the way into winter.

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 11, 2015 13:57 UTC (Wed) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link] (13 responses)

>Fall 2015, going by calendar seasons. Even F21 didn't slip all the way into winter.

Um, it was released in December - less than two weeks before midwinter.

(According to Wikipedia anyway)

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 11, 2015 14:12 UTC (Wed) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (12 responses)

> Um, it was released in December - less than two weeks before midwinter.

Huh; today I learned that this is not standardized internationally. In the US, we consider the winter solstice the official _start_ of Winter.

In any case, and back to the point, F23 is planned for October, and for the same reasons that we decided to not delay F21 for the new GCC ABI, we _don't_ expect to slip until close to winter, however you define it.

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 11, 2015 15:11 UTC (Wed) by riccieri (guest, #94794) [Link] (11 responses)

> Huh; today I learned that this is not standardized internationally.

That, plus the fact that when you write "winter" I (and half of the planet) need to read "summer", is why people should stop using seasons to communicate scheduling.

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 11, 2015 15:42 UTC (Wed) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (3 responses)

Is it better if we write "Halloween" and "Mother's Day"? :)

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 11, 2015 16:12 UTC (Wed) by etienne (guest, #25256) [Link] (1 responses)

> Is it better if we write "Halloween" and "Mother's Day"? :)

No, not "Mother's Day", you should not phone your Mum on the wrong "Mother's Day" - I know that.

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 13, 2015 16:04 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

"Mother's Day" isn't that ambiguous - that is - if if you call the days by their traditional names. I don't know when Mother's Day is because it's an American abhomination :-) - is it the first Sunday in May?

But for us over here it's Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent.

Cheers,
Wol

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 11, 2015 18:35 UTC (Wed) by riccieri (guest, #94794) [Link]

Only if this means you will be doing different release dates per country, Hollywood style :) I'm sure my mom would love Fedora 22 as a gift this year.

Less than half the planet has winter in December.

Posted Feb 12, 2015 3:15 UTC (Thu) by gmatht (subscriber, #58961) [Link]

`when you write "winter" I (and half of the planet) need to read "summer"' ... actually it is worse than that. If you live in the Tropics, you don't even have summer or winter.

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 12, 2015 10:33 UTC (Thu) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link] (3 responses)

And in British English we write "summre" and "wintre" ... ;-)

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 12, 2015 11:18 UTC (Thu) by jonquark (guest, #45554) [Link] (2 responses)

I thought we wrote winter and "those 3 weeks that are supposed to be sunny but it still seems to be raining" ;)

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 13, 2015 16:09 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

No. It's "those six weeks when the kids are off school and can't go out because it's raining" and "those three weeks when the kids are off school and can't go out because it's cold and wet".

Off-topic - our grand-kids were delighted because we had half an inch of snow on boxing day - which lasted about 24 hours.

Cheers,
Wol

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 17, 2015 7:47 UTC (Tue) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link]

Doesn't boxing day *always* last 24h? :P

SCNR.

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 23, 2015 23:54 UTC (Mon) by Trammael (guest, #101173) [Link] (1 responses)

Surely on half by geography and not population?

GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)

Posted Feb 24, 2015 1:32 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Not even half. Not all regions have four seasons. Around the equator it is closer to wet and dry than hot and cold determining the seasons.