Here's a suggested 2.5 release schedule, constructed fairly arbitrarily by putting a week's margin for slippage in before everybody leaves for Christmas, and having a four week softfreeze and four week hardfreeze:
Softfreeze 15 Oct Hardfreeze 12 Nov Release 10 Dec (these are all Thursdays, and this gives us five and a half weeks til softfreeze.) Does anybody have any different preferences, want to suggest shorter freeze periods, etc? (Philosophical question: I tend to assume we will slip by a week, because we pretty much have always done so over the last few weeks. If we made the official hardfreeze a week longer, would we make our releases on the scheduled date, or would we just end up slipping another week anyhow? :-)) thanks -- PMM
