On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 22:22 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Now the interesting question is what about the RC1. We didn't really loose time in development as we checked in almost everything that came in during the time we waited for the fixes - this includes e.g. kernel 3.1rc7. But we can't hold the schedule as it is - the original deadline for RC1 checkins is october 7th - that's around 4 days after public announcment of the beta and even before the pizza party.
With the new factory work flow we have some more flexibility in terms of checkin deadlines, so let's make use of that. My proposal would be:
Move RC1 from October 13th to 21st for release date - checkin deadline would be 18th.
Move RC2 from October 27th to November 3th - checkin deadline would be October 28th (November 1st and the monday in front are blackout in Nuremberg and we rely too much on Nuremberg to move the date where it's perfect ;( )
Move Final release from November 11th (who set that date anyway? :) to November 16th. GM would be on 11th.
Note, that I don't want to move the final date too much and if we all agree to some discipline, RC2 will already be perfect and we only apply some polishing up to GM. I know that shuffles our usual weekdays for release a bit and I'm pretty sure I made some mistakes in my proposal, so please feel free to give ideas of yours.
Coolo, We have posed your question on the marketing list and there seems to be general consensus that we agree the 11th is not an ideal date for releasing the final version of 12.1. We also would like to recommend that 12.1 be released on Wednesday, November 15th as a more ideal date of release for two reasons: 1) We feel that Wednesday is a better day than Thursday to give ample time for the media to generate positive noise about 12.1 thus more awareness to people who may wish to download and try openSUSE on the first weekend following the release. 2) LinuxCon Brazil begins on Thursday, November 16 and we would like to be able to have the release ready prior to the start of the conference and give the local supporters of openSUSE a day to generate excitement about the release before they focus more fully on the conference itself. We, the marketing team, recognize that the decision of release date is not the marketing team's to make, but rather the Release Team's decision. This is merely a recommendation and should not supersede any additional issues the Release Team must take into consideration. Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org