All of the features are complete for Fedora 9. Thanks to all the feature owners and package maintainers for making all of the new features and innovations happen in Fedora 9!
The final feature list is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList
All in all a smoother feature process compared to the original launch of the feature process for Fedora 8. Like the Fedora 8 process I still think there is room for streamlining the process by finding better ways to track new features and status efficiently. I’m also not sure how much longer manually managing the feature pages with the wiki will work.
Fedora 9 is presently scheduled (subject to change) for general availability on Tuesday, May 13, 2008. The release schedule is here and links to obtain the release are on the front page at http://fedoraproject.org/
If you want a sneak peak at Fedora 9, the Preview Release is available via bittorrent here. The final release will also be available in this location.
April 19, 2008 at 5:30 am
RKL
Several others agreed with you too 🙂 The schedule has been pushed out two weeks. We are also doing some more work around better defining what the different release names mean and how much public distribution (e.g. bittorrent) and testing they get before release.
Thanks for posting,
John
April 16, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Interesting that you link to the F9 schedule, which currently has 3 releases scheduled in a world-record-for-a-major-distro 12 days (17th April for Preview, 22nd April for RC1 and 29th April for Final). There’s very little talk about this slip on the Fedora mailing lists, but I’m guessing that the RC1 will have to be dropped, otherwise that “X Days to Sulphur” graphic on the fedoraproject.org home page is going to have to get “accidentially stuck” several times 🙂
April 16, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I think the current system that is setup is wholly good, but it all depends on the contributors having the time to update these pages. I know that I find it very helpful in tracking the release’s progress in general and also particular features that I care about. It’s definitely a good thing.
April 16, 2008 at 5:20 am
That’s excellent news. Thanks for the good work you’ve done keeping track of the features and keeping us up to date with their status.