release cadence for Q and R

[TImo Aaltonen]

On 16.06.2011 09:17, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:41:49PM -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 14:48 -0700, Allison Randal wrote:
>>> A few practical considerations I ran through:
>>>
>>> - Release on Oct 11 means UDS on Oct 29-Nov 2 (the week of Halloween)
>>> - Release on Oct 18 means UDS on Nov 5-9
>>> - Release on Oct 25 means UDS on Nov 12-17 (the week before Thanksgiving)
>>
>> Does UDS have to be a fixed number of days from the release?
>
> If we're looking to permanently align schedules, then +1 for UDS on Nov
> 5-9.  Many of us have kids and it would not be pleasant to set things up
> such that we *always* miss Halloween.  The week before Thanksgiving
> might work, but seems like some people get hit by Ubuflu or Icelandic
> volcanoes or whatever, so guess it could be risky for folks.

Well, the Father's Day for us Scandinavians is the second Sunday of 
November, so traveling the weekend from US would basically mean missing 
it :)

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