= phenomenon =

Fedora 18 is slipping quite a bit and from the various code drops some important parts will not be in any shape beyond "It compiles ship it" to reach our current release of mid to late December.

= recommendation =

Fedora 18 schedule be moved out to a release of March 2013. Reset the alpha and beta time periods to match appropriately but be very strict on being feature complete at Alpha. If the items like anaconda or some other application are not done by the new Alpha then a plan must be in place of using the last release version for the new Alpha release.

Fedora 19 release would be moved to October 2013 using any revamped new release methodology.