Fedora 13 is (almost) Feature Complete

2010-03-24 Thread John Poelstra
Thank you to all the feature owners and developers for all their hard work to make Fedora 13 the best Fedora release yet. We are almost to the end! Everyone should review the final feature list to make sure all the expected features are captured there:

Recent Bugzilla Comment Concerning Fedora 11 EOL

2010-04-27 Thread John Poelstra
All open Fedora 11 bugs recently received a comment warning about the upcoming end of life for Fedora 11. This email serves as correction to part of that notification. Due to an error on my part this warning was sent out earlier than it should have been. The statement Approximately 30

Fedora 14 Feature Submission Deadline is One Week Away (2010-07-13)

2010-07-06 Thread John Poelstra
This email serves as the last reminder for the Fedora 14 Feature Submission Deadline--Tuesday, July 13, 2010. After this date newly submitted features will be targeted for Fedora 15 unless an exception is granted by FESCo. Accepted Fedora 14 features so far:

Fedora 14 Milestone Reached: Feature Freeze-2010-07-27

2010-07-28 Thread John Poelstra
Yesterday, July 27, 2010, we reached Feature Freeze for Fedora 14 As previously noted, at Feature Freeze it is expected that all features are *significantly* feature complete and ready for testing: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Policy. A review of the status section on the

Fedora 14 Alpha Can Still Ship on Time IF these bugs get attention TODAY

2010-08-04 Thread John Poelstra
It's been an exciting ride so far and we're embracing the peaks and valleys of the Fedora release process in real time. Even with all the recent changes and bugs we still have a shot at creating the Fedora 14 Release Candidate on schedule TOMORROW. Failure to successfully build the RC

Reminder: Bugzilla UPGRADE to 3.6 on August 13th 9:00 p.m.EDT [01:00 UTC]

2010-08-11 Thread John Poelstra
Sending on behalf of Dave Lawrence. This will affect Fedora too. REMINDER: Red Hat Bugzilla (bugzilla.redhat.com) will be unavailable on August 13th starting at 9:00 p.m. EDT [01:00 UTC] to perform an upgrade from Bugzilla 3.4 to Bugzilla 3.6. We are hoping to be complete in no more than 5

ZERO Days Remain to Fix Fedora 14 Blocker Bugs

2010-10-19 Thread John Poelstra
We've made great progress on open Fedora 14 blocker bugs since last week. Thank you package owners for all your hard work! The list of bugs below are currently blocking the creation of the final release candidate (RC). These bugs must be addressed as soon as possible so that a solid release

Fedora 14 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting Tuesday, October 26, 2010 @ 21:00 UTC

2010-10-25 Thread John Poelstra
Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Tuesday October 26, 2010 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is