On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:32:38PM -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
I would like to help with this. To do so I need to know which tasks and milestones to include in the schedule. Here is the current development schedule for Fedora 15:
Sure, right now, we'd target 2.6.38 for F-15, which should be released around the beginning of April.
As it stands, 2.6.37 should be released approximately mid-January, based on us being at 2.6.36-rc3 now and the usually week and a bit between -rc (and usually releasing at approximately -rc8.) Christmas and LCA if Linus goes might be a bit of a delay there, but I'd gather we'll be at 2.6.37 pre-F15-branch.
It's usually a two week merge window for -rc1, and then the usual cycle, of roughly 80 days total before the next kernel release.
Start End Name Wed 19-Jan Wed 19-Jan Submit Installer Builds for QA Compose Tue 25-Jan Tue 25-Jan Feature Submission Deadline Wed 26-Jan Wed 26-Jan Submit Installer Builds for QA Compose Sat 29-Jan Mon 31-Jan Fudcon Fedora 15--Tempe, Arizona Wed 02-Feb Wed 02-Feb Submit Installer Builds for QA Compose Tue 08-Feb Tue 08-Feb Branch Fedora 15 from Rawhide
~ 2.6.37 release date.
Tue 08-Feb Tue 08-Feb Orphan Rawhide Packages Tue 08-Feb Tue 08-Feb Feature Freeze (Testable|Complete) Tue 08-Feb Tue 08-Feb Spins Freeze--All Fedora 15 Spins Identified Tue 15-Feb Tue 15-Feb Alpha Change Deadline Tue 15-Feb Tue 15-Feb Software String Freeze Wed 16-Feb Wed 16-Feb Submit Installer Builds for Alpha RC Compose Tue 01-Mar Tue 01-Mar Alpha Public Availability Fri 04-Mar Fri 04-Mar Build F-15 collection packages for all language translators Mon 14-Mar Mon 14-Mar Submit Installer Builds for Beta TC Compose Tue 15-Mar Tue 15-Mar Software: Start Rebuild all translated packages Tue 15-Mar Tue 22-Mar Software: Rebuild all translated packages Tue 22-Mar Tue 22-Mar Beta Change Deadline
~ 2.6.38-rc[7-8]
Tue 22-Mar Tue 22-Mar Features 100% Complete Deadline Wed 23-Mar Wed 23-Mar Submit Installer Builds for Beta RC Compose Tue 05-Apr Tue 05-Apr Beta Release Public Availability
~ 2.6.38 release.
Fri 15-Apr Fri 15-Apr Submit Installer Builds for Final TC Compose Mon 25-Apr Mon 25-Apr Final Change Deadline Mon 25-Apr Mon 25-Apr Submit Installer Builds for Final RC Compose Tue 10-May Tue 10-May Final (GA) Release
What should we add for the kernel team so that important dates are known and Fedora 15 can be well coordinated?
By mid-March we should be well on our way through the 2.6.38 cycle, I think we'll probably stick on 2.6.37 for Alpha (depending on the exact release date) and immediately switch to 2.6.38-rc2 in F-15 afterwards, which should avoid us releasing an Alpha with a 'too raw' -rc1 kernel and still give us plenty of time to clean up issues with 2.6.38-rc[12].
Obviously, the earlier we branch the better, and having more people test the hell out of the kernel upstream the better.
--Kyle