Re: 2.11/2.12 schedule?

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:09:35 -0700, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:28:11 +0200, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > Jeff has a draft schedule here?:
> > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointEleven
> >
> > If there are no objections, can we publish this soon?
> 
> Oh, cool.  I'm glad to see it already exists; I was going to create
> one today (though I was also going to create one several days over the
> last couple weeks and it keeps seeming to slip off the priority
> list...).  Anyway, a couple comments:
> 
> -We're announcing this somewhat late, so it may make sense to shove
> the 2.10.1 release back a week.

Yah.
 
> - It'd be nice to specify at what time on Mondays that the tarballs
> are due (I saw lots of confusion over this and found that there was
> wide interpretation of what it meant, from must be uploaded before
> Monday, to may release as long as it's Monday somewhere, to release
> isn't until Wednesday so Monday isn't the real deadline).  I'd prefer
> to have it mean before the end of Monday (in one of the later
> timezones), so that people don't need to interrupt weekend activities
> to get a tarball out (or release early and miss out on
> translation/documentation additions).  Of course, maybe I'm just
> making a big deal out of nothing...

An ETA would be nice, agreed.

> - Seeing Paul's comments on Garnome, and the time-consuming process in
> general of getting releases out, do we want to push the release dates
> out a day or two to the Thursday or Friday of the week in which the
> tarballs are due?

I'd like to, for the same reasons as Paul (except s/garnome/livecd/);
I think having at least something people can download/play with is
important.

Luis