Historically, Fedora has operated on a fiscal calendar which corresponds to Red Hat's. For whatever corporate blah-blah-blah reasons, RH's fiscal year ends at the end of February. This has the somewhat surprising result that most of 2019 is in FY20, and we'd normally be planning for FY21 starting in March.
However, with the IBM purchase, Red Hat will at some point be changing to the much less confusing "hey, quarters are the same as the calendar". Since the only reason Fedora did this the confusing way was to keep our finances lined up with our primary sponsor, it'd be extra silly of us to keep the offset calendar when that sponsor hasn't.
So, in 2020, let's call a quarter a quarter.
I believe our sponsor's calendar will change beginning calendar year 2021, so the upcoming fiscal year will be a fiscal 10 months.
+1 to this proposal whether we start in calendar 2020 or 2021.
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+1 for changing, I think we should do it it in CY20 if we can
+1 for either calendar 2020 or 2021
FWIW, I suggest the project follow RH's conversion during CY20. This way the money flows easily for the FCAIC. The quarters have no real effect on project activity.
+1, happy to let the people it affects detail the timeline (likely FCAIC/FPL)
+1, this makes sense to me.
I have official information Red Hat's process (and permission to share it):
So to break that down for 2020:
The vote is (+5,0-0). The proposal is accepted. @riecatnor, you may budget accordingly.
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