F17 Artwork/Schedule

This page contains the F17 Artwork release schedule. Items highlighted in bold are upcoming, items shown in italics have been finished already.

Key milestones from general release schedule

• 2011-10-10 (Monday)—Release name announced. (Beefy Miracle)
• 2012-02-07 (Tuesday)—Feature freeze, branching point
• 2012-02-14 (Tuesday)—Alpha change deadline
• 2012-02-28 (Tuesday)—Alpha release
• 2012-03-20 (Tuesday)—Beta change deadline
• 2012-04-03 (Tuesday)—Beta release
• 2012-04-23 (Monday)—Final change deadline
• 2012-05-08 (Tuesday)—Fedora 17 Final release.

Default Wallpaper

• 2011-12-27 (Tuesday)—Sketches submission deadline.
  • Couple of winners get (any concept with enough votes gets promoted) selected and submitted for the next phase.
• 2012-01-17 (Tuesday)—Colorization submission deadline.
  • Winning concept selected and submitted for Alpha polishing.
• 2012-01-31 (Tuesday)—Alpha wallpaper approved and submitted for packaging.
  • 2012-01-07 (Tuesday)—Alpha wallpaper imported and built into rawhide.
• 2012-03-13 (Tuesday)—Beta wallpaper approved and submitted for packaging.
  • 2012-03-20 (Tuesday)—Wallpaper package updated to beta wallpaper and pushed to F17 stable.
• 2012-04-17 (Tuesday)—Final wallpaper approved and submitted for packaging.
  • 2012-04-23 (Monday)—Wallpaper package updated to final wallpaper and pushed to F17 stable.

Release Banners

• 2012-02-24 (Friday)—Alpha release banner deadline.
• 2012-03-30 (Friday)—Beta release banner deadline.
• 2012-04-03 (Tuesday)—Countdown banner deadline.
• 2012-05-04 (Friday)—Final release banner deadline.

Other Marketing Material

• 2012-03-27 (Tuesday)—CD/DVD sleeves deadline.
• 2012-04-24 (Tuesday)—Release posters deadline.
• 2012-05-04 (Friday)—Main web page banner deadline.