Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

[Ronald Klop]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:32:34 +0100, Rainer Duffner  
<rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:

> Am Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:18:44 -0500
> schrieb Mark Saad <nonesuch at longcount.org>:
>
>> So what is the short summary ? From what I can see, the wiki is out
>> of date again. the ISO are on the master server, and working out to
>> the mirrors. FreeBSD update is still not updated.  Does someone just
>> need to just update the wiki with the relevant info ?
>
>
> From my experience, it usually takes a couple of days from uploading
> the ISOs to the official announcement.
>
> I don't think it makes sense anymore to update the wiki now.
>
> For the future, I also suggest not to make a timeline or a public
> schedule at all.
> It will stop people from making assumptions and plans for their
> rollouts that more often than not just turn out to be unrealistic.
> I myself actually anticipated a October/November-ish release-date when I
> saw the first schedule...and even that turned out to be too optimistic.

I suggest to make a timeline AND communicate what is happening _now_. Some  
small official statement from the release team now and then would make a  
large difference.