The Fedora_28_RC_1.1 compose [1] is considered as GOLD and it is going to be shipped on 2018-May-01 as Fedora 28 Final release. For more information please check the meeting minutes [2] from the Go/No-Go meeting.

On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 20:41 +0200, Jan Kurik wrote:For the record, I have determined to at least my own satisfaction that this is the first *ever* on-time Fedora release. Go team! For releases from 11 onwards it's easy to demonstrate that they slipped: the original dates were kept in their wiki schedule pages with a strike-through each time they slipped, so you just go to each release's page and verify it has some strikethroughs for the 'Final release" date. For releases from 7 to 10 this wasn't done - the 'official' schedule page was just silently edited when the schedule slipped, and as the wiki at that point in history was MoinMoin not Mediawiki, we don't have the edit histories any more. However, I've found references to earlier schedules around the place (meeting logs, mailing list archives, forum posts, sometimes John Poelstra's blog) that sufficiently indicate there *was* an 'official' schedule with an earlier release date than the actual one in each case. If anyone's as sadly nerdy as me, I can provide specific references for each of these releases. For releases from FC2 to FC6 you can find the schedules in the Wayback Machine archives for http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/ https://web.archive.org/web/20030701000000*/http://fedora.redhat.com/part... For these releases, the schedule was never claimed to be 'official', it was always referred to as a 'draft'. But I came up with a pretty conservative definition of 'delayed': I looked at the page approx. 3 weeks before the *actual* release date for each of these releases. In each case, the Final release date that was scheduled 3 weeks before the *actual* release date didn't match, it was earlier. I think it's reasonable to consider this as a 'slip' in each case - if we didn't even meet the schedule we had planned less than a month before release, it's pretty hard to argue that's not a 'slip'. FC1 is the trickiest. I don't think any FC1 development schedule was ever really made public. So for that one I got creative. There's an article on LWN - written by Joe Brockmeier no less! - around the time of the release: https://lwn.net/Articles/56036/ It was written on Wednesday 2018-10-29, and states in part: "With the first stable release of the Fedora Core scheduled for early next week..." Now, the release actually happened on 2018-11-05. Which *is* 'next week' from 2018-10-29, but it's also Wednesday of the next week. I am going to hold that no-one can reasonably claim Wednesday is "early" in a given week. Surely only Monday and Tuesday (and Sunday, depending on what day you think a week starts on) can plausibly claim to be "early". On that basis, I'm gonna say FC1 was at least a day late from the schedule in place a week before it came out, and on that basis...every release from FC1 to F27 was at least a day late. And F28 is the first one that's ever been on time. :P -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net