...
Code | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Appoint Release Manager | Patricia Shanahan | She was the only volunteer | |||||
Propose string/localization updates | - | - | - | Language changes are not being considered for 4.1.3 | |||
Propose dictionary updates | Ariel Constenla-Haile | See release notes for the list of updated dictionaries | |||||
Select bugfixes and enhancements | All | Anyone can propose a blocker either using the "4.1.3 Release Blocker" flag in Bugzilla or writing to the dev list | |||||
Decide on the proposed release blocker | Patricia Shanahan | This is done only by the Release Manager | |||||
Provide code for the selected bugfixes/enhancements | |||||||
Build | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | ||
Buildbots | - | - | - | Buildbots available for: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD. Mac OS X still missing but not a blocker (we don't need a buildbot for OS X release builds) | |||
Windows builds | Ariel Constenla-Haile |
| |||||
Mac OS X 64-bit builds | Ariel Constenla-Haile | ||||||
Linux 32-bit and 64-bit builds | Ariel Constenla-Haile | ||||||
SDK builds | Ariel Constenla-Haile | ||||||
Source builds | Andrea Pescetti | ||||||
Upload builds to ASF Dist server (dev area) | Ariel Constenla-Haile | ||||||
Vote on Release Candidate | Patricia Shanahan | Vote passed | |||||
Go / No Go for the release (based on votes and comments) | Patricia Shanahan | GO! | |||||
Upload builds to SF mirrors | Andrea Pescetti | Copy requires just a few hours, with the normal rsync instructions shown; note: project name has changed since 4.1.2 and now the rsync target must be written as Make sure it's going into a "staged" drectory | |||||
Move builds to ASF Dist server (dist area) | Patricia Shanahan | ||||||
Make sure builds are on the ASF Archive server | Andrea Pescetti, Marcus Lange | Hash files must not be stored on public servers but only on ASF servers | |||||
Sourceforge: Update to "Latest Version" | Marcus Lange | Set the attribute "Latest Version" to all full installation files for every platform | |||||
Update Feed: New check.Update for the aoo413 area | Calendar week 42 ? | Calendar week 42 ? | Andrea Pescetti | The update notification will create a high load on the mirror servers as a lot fof users wil lthen update their AOO installation. This must be avoided. Therefore this task has to be done always some days after the release. | |||
QA | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | ||
Generic QA | All | ||||||
Specific QA focused on the selected bugfixes/enhancements | All | ||||||
Communication | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | ||
Blog post: First status update and call for volunteers on dev@ mailing list | - | This was not done | |||||
Website: Link top bar hint to the blog post | Marcus Lange | ||||||
Website: Link announcements to the blog posts | Marcus Lange | ||||||
Wiki: Prepare the Release Notes | Keith McKenna, Dick Groskamp, Patricia Shanahan, Andrea Pescetti, Jörg Schmidt, Marcus Lange | ||||||
Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized release notes | Dick Groskamp, Jörg Schmidt, Marcus Lange | Done so far for Dutch and German. | |||||
Website: Update the main AOO test download page | Marcus Lange | Test if the download links are working (binaries, hash files, release notes, etc.) | |||||
Website: Update the main AOO download page | Marcus Lange | ||||||
Website: Update the project's AOO pages: main and download | Marcus Lange | ||||||
Blog post: Write the announcement to the AOO blog | Marcus Lange | ||||||
Announcement: Prepare Apache Press Release | Marcus Lange | Working together with Sally Khudairi @ Apache, based on Release Notes | |||||
Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized press release | Jörg Schmidt, Marcus Lange | ||||||
Announcement: Write official announcement for announce@ | Marcus Lange |
...