Fedora 13 Important Release Milestones

Name	Definition	Limitation Going Forward	Exceptions
Feature Submission Deadline	Final date that new features can be submitted to the release	New features must be submitted to next release	Request exception from FESCo
Feature Freeze	Feature development is complete or in a significantly complete state so that the feature can be adequately tested	Bug fixes and polish only; significant development should be complete	Request exception from FESCo
Branch From Rawhide	Branch release under development from rawhide	Once branched, changes to release under development and rawhide must be checked into both places	Not Applicable
Alpha Freeze	Limit changes to prepare Alpha release	To be included: Critical Path Packages--Bug must block F13Alpha All other packages need tag request	File tag request with Release Engineering
Software String Freeze	No more changes to software strings so that translation can complete	No new strings added	File exception request with Translation
Beta Freeze	Limit changes to prepare Beta release	To be included: Critical Path Packages--Bug must block F13Beta All other packages need tag request	File tag request with Release Engineering
Final Freeze	Severely limit changes to prepare the Release Candidate (RC) and Final release.	To included bug must block F13Blocker	File tag request with Release Engineering