[mirror-admin] [Fwd: Do overlapping release dates matter for our mirrors?]

[Carlos Carvalho]

Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) wrote on 30 November 2009 10:27:
 >1) What is the minimum distance in days that we have to put between our 
 >release and other distros?

Depends on the other ones. Usually only distros with many users are
important and this depends on the location of the mirror. For us it's
ubuntu and mozilla. If fedora comes before these two, 3 days is
enough. If it comes after we need *at least* a week (and it's still
tough), because of staging and release. If you stage 2 days before the
other releases, 5 days is enough (which means one week between staging
and release).

 >2) Is it the release date that matters most or the date the staging starts?

Both. If you stage during the peak of another release it's more
difficult for us to pull the new one because the net becomes clogged
(not here, usually in the international links).

 >3) On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 = doesn't matter, 3 = moderate impact, 5 = 
 >critical, we'd be out of our minds not to) how important is it that we 
 >bend our schedule to not land as close as we might be potentially 
 >landing with the dates below (assuming we do not slip)?

With the dates below I'd say 3, because fedora comes before ubuntu.
It'd be better if you could release one day or two earlier. If you
slip 2 weeks it'll be fine. But if you decide to slip only one week
it's critical (5) because you'll be too close to ubuntu.

 >4) Our current options as I understand them are:
 >    a) Overlap closely (see below)
 >    b) Add two weeks to Fedora 13
 >
 >   Is there an "option C" that we could implement or go with so as not 
 >to have to add two weeks to our scheduled GA date if the consensus score 
 >from #3 is high?

 >------------------------------------------------------
 >
 >Debian                2010-March (Freeze, not an actual release date)
 >
 >Fedora 13             2010-04-27 (since Fedora 8 every release has been 
 >late >= 2 weeks)
 >
 >Ubuntu 10.4           2010-04-29 (I'm told they have never slipped)
 >
 >OpenSUSE              2010-05-05 (no idea on their "on time arrival 

As said above, release on 2010-04-25.

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