My intention was "let's hurry up and make Wednesday", but it seems there is preference for Monday.
Understand that these press releases are coordinated between Apache and news outlets and once we pick a day we have to stick to it and we have to pick it days in advance. Our window for Wednesday would have been right this second and the only feedback has been for Monday, so Monday it is. This is a non-movable date. Binaries will have to be pushed to the mirrors Sunday morning. Votes will have to be closed by Saturday night. To allow 72 hours for voting no votes can start later than Wednesday night. It takes a few hours to roll a release, upload it, get it through TCK testing and a green CI build. The net; this only buys us 2 full days. We have 2 days to make any changes and incorporate feedback. Then the door is closed. -David On Apr 23, 2012, at 1:04 AM, David Blevins wrote: > Sally Khudairi (Apache PR person) has drafted us up an official Apache > announcement like there was for the certification. > > She asked when it should be released, I said probably Wednesday. Was > thinking Tuesday earlier in the week, but that seems unlikely at this point. > > Hopefully we can get our voting done by at least Tuesday morning afternoon to > give time for things to sync to the mirrors. > > If not I might recommend waiting till the following Monday. News doesn't > really survive the weekend and announcing on a Thursday (or far worse, > Friday) gives us mere hours before it's dropped. > > Even Wednesday is kind of the latest good day. > > > -David >
