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	No features must be submitted to next release	Request from FESCo via Trac Ticket
Feature Freeze	Feature development is complete or in a significantly complete state so that the feature can be tested	Bug fixes and polish only; significant development should be complete	?? What kind of exceptions would we want?
Branch From Rawhide	Branch release under development from rawhide	Once branched changes to release under development and rawhide must be checked into both places	?? What kind of exceptions would we want?
Alpha Freeze	Stop taking in bug fixes to the Preparing for the Alpha release.	Only F13Alpha bugs can be fixed	File a ticket in ____ requesting _____
Software String Freeze	No more changes to software strings so that translation can begin		File a ticket in ____ requesting _____
Beta Freeze	Stop taking in bug fixes to the Preparing for the Beta release.	Only F13Beta bugs can be fixed	File a ticket in ____ requesting _____
Final Freeze	Stop taking in all bug fixes to the preparing the RC and Final release.	Only F13Blocker bugs can be fixed	File a ticket in ____ requesting _____