[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

[Cor Nouws]

Norbert Thiebaud wrote (26-06-11 01:16)
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Cor Nouws<oolst at nouenoff.nl>  wrote:
>>
>> Therefore I argue that it would not be fair
>> to decide on 7 weeks from the deadline, that it is shortened by 3 or 4
>> weeks.
>
> Sure, but delaying the Release Date by 3 or 4 weeks will not be fair
> to downstream either

Indeed. Therefore, if we decide that we need some more QA time between 
"Hard feature freezed & branched libreoffice-3-5 " (and I expect that we 
will come to that conclusion), then that time must be picked in front, 
and in time.

> The calendar was worked out by picking a Release date that would work
> for downstream - RedHat, Canonical, Suse,... - and then working our
> way backward to a 'freeze date'. the consequence of a major downstream
> not being able to pick-up a release of ours is much more important, in
> my opinion,  than a given feature being pushed to the next release.

Fully agree.
Cheers,

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  - Cor
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