[Hoary] waiting...

[Thom May]

* Vincent Trouilliez (vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr) wrote :
> > it would be interesting to get a geographical breakdown of the Ubnutu
> > developpers one of these days,  but it is my impression that a
> > majority are not in the UK time zone; Ubuntu seems to br a 24-hours
> > operation in many time zones around the world.
> 
> Funny, I always pictured the opposite ! Don't why really. I think Matt
> and Mark S. and Colin W. and Jeff etc are in the UK, and since they are
> the ones we hear the most of on this list...
Matt's in the US, Jeff's in Australia. Colin, Mark, and a bunch of others
(including me) are in the UK.

> But you are right, considering we have 30+ full time devs, the hard core
> I mentionned is not the majority...
This number is still wrong :-)
http://fooishbar.org/blog//tech/ubuntu/ubuntuNumbers-2005-03-15-23-04.html

> Good idea then, to get to know our lovely Ubuntu team better, they
> should put a page on our loevely new site, to list all their names,
> where they are based, and what part of Ubuntu they mostly work on.
> Knowing them better would strengthen this feeling of community.... :o)
you'll have fun getting most of us in front of a camera ;-)
> 
> > With that said, my recollection is that Hoary will be released early
> > morning UK time.
> 
> Hmmm, 4AM (3AM your side of the channel ?), let's say 6AM, only 3 hours
> left and I press the "reload" button of my browser... :o)))
>
0800 UTC is the appointed hour.
 
> > I think they really deserve a few days of holidays before the next
> > cycle starts.   They all gave a lot of working hours to Hoary in the
> > last few days, and after the Fridau night parties, I suspect a lot of
> > sleep catch up is in order over the next few days.
> 
> Yes, your aright, I was being a bit selfish here... ;o)
> I will give them a full week of holiday, and expect an annoucement for
> Breezy mid/end of April, with a stable-ish Breezy in mid-May, ready for
> testing.... sounds fair ?? ;o)

Breezy technically opens 08:01 UTC, but don't expect to see too much for the
first week or so :-)
Cheers,
-Thom