[mirror-admin] FW: Fedora 9 Release date slipping by two weeks (new date, May 13)

[Matt_Domsch at Dell.com]

FYI. 

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From: fedora-announce-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-announce-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jesse
Keating
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:28 PM
To: fedora-devel-announce at redhat.com; fedora-announce-list at redhat.com
Subject: Fedora 9 Release date slipping by two weeks (new date, May 13)

At today's regularly scheduled meeting, the Fedora Engineering Steering
Committee (FESCo) decided that Fedora 9 release will be slipping by
exactly two weeks.

Because of other slippage, coupled with some technical difficulties
during this previous week, our Preview Release was unexpectedly stalled.
The Preview Release is where we expect to catch all manner of
last-minute bugs, do very heavy QA, and otherwise perform all the final
spit-and-polish.  There needs to be sufficient time between the PR and
the release for testers to find and report issues.

There are less than two weeks remaining until the original target date
of April 29th.  About a week before that date we have to have everything
locked and loaded for distribution by our mirrors.  That small a
timeframe would then make the Preview Release -- normally a very
important part of our release schedule -- nearly useless.

This slip is not intended to make room for more changes, it is only
intended to make room for fixing the things we already know about, and
allowing new things to be found, and evaluated as release blocking, and
fixed.  There are also a fair number of bugs we think we've already
fixed, but need wider audience testing to be sure.

The current blocker list is viewable at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=235706&hide_resolv
ed=1 however since there is nothing preventing people from adding bugs
to this list it will get culled from time to time from things that
aren't actually blockers.  A (rather longer) list of things we'd like to
see fixes for can be seen
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=235705&hide_resolv
ed=1 although this list does get less attention than the blocker list.

We deeply appreciate the value we get from our community in using our
development tree and testing our release attempts.  Without your input,
our releases couldn't possibly be as good as they have been.  Please
help us use these extra couple of weeks to make the already awesome
Fedora 9 even better!

--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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