Re: RC1

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 02:13:49 +1100, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> <quote who="JP Rosevear">
> 
> > Does it seem strange to anyone else that we are releasing final with out
> > RC1 having been officially released (no slight on jdub, its a big job to
> > get that all at the door and even the planned date would have given < 5
> > days)?  Being that the last release was more than 4 weeks ago, we're
> > actually releasing final without an official release in almost a month.
> 
> RC1 is going out tonight, but I don't think it's worth slipping final - cvs
> and package testers are doing fine.
> 
> > Maybe this is a ddl thing, but I think we should go back to a two week
> > gap after RC1 for 2.12 at least.

This was done because last release cycle Mark, Shaun, and Murray
proposed shortening to one week and there weren't any objections at
all. (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-September/msg00237.html).
 Anyway, we just need to remember to bring this up for the 2.12
schedule, get comments, and change this back to two weeks.

> Yes, totally agree - the final dates on this schedule are *not* optimal at
> all. We need at *least* two weeks between RC and Final. (We've been doing
> scheduling the wrong way for the last couple of releases, working forward
> instead of backward. That's probably part of it.)

What do you mean by working forward instead of backward?


Elijah