On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:13 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
As a step to reducing the "pressure" and dissatisfaction of "Are We There Yet?" ("When will xxx be released?"), a simple publication of a projected time line will help. It should be updated as needed. It should understood that this could be another source of "pressure" as a release date nears and folks realize it may be missed.
I'll suggest that instead of a timeline, which would be a source of pressure like you said, a weekly progress update would be just fine. Similar to what Karanbir, IIANW, has done on his twitter/blog recently. Maybe something like
"CentOS 5.4 Progress: Completed 2/7 Stages. Stage 3 estimated 5% completed. No progress expected for next two weeks due to XYZ convention"
The main thing is actually the VISIBILITY part. Putting it on CentOS frontpage would cut down a lot of the unnecessary "when/where" questions and leave the developers in peace :)