-------- From: "Mike A. Harris" mharris@redhat.com
Considering now that we have announced some dates in the beta installer screens, and we've indeed not been able to meet one of the dates, this very much illustrates that Red Hat's previous policy of not pre-announcing dates of things was very well thought out and rational, because now that the date has been missed, we are seeing people rant and rave about it.
Since this is intended to be a community project, I have viewed these release dates as managerial goals to help the redhat external participants manage their resources. We have a loose idea of when the next milestone is so we can prioritize our self imposed tasks:
1. install or upgrade to new release 2. start reporting burst of bugs from the errors found only in first use/install phase 3. watch bugs, track personally important issues, make patches etc. if we want fixed in next release 4. get some paying work done 5. notice new release is nigh and try to push our personal agendas some more, e.g., new kernel patch for touchpads or something 6. stabilize systems for upgrade, make backups etc. 7. repeat
Having goal dates makes the above much easier, IMHO.
Joel