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Appoint Release Manager | |||||
Propose string/localization updates | - | - | - | Language changes are not being considered. They will be prepared for 4.2.x | |
Propose dictionary updates | - | - | English and Asturian dictionaries were updated | ||
Select bugfixes and enhancements | All | ||||
Decide on the proposed release blocker | All | ||||
Provide code for the selected bugfixes/enhancements | - | - | All | Issue List | |
Build | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments |
Buildbots | - | - | - | Buildbots available for Windows and Linux. macOS still missing but not a blocker (we don't need a buildbot for macOS release builds) | |
Windows 32-bit builds |
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| Matthias Seidel | Build platform: Windows 10 (64-bit), because we use Windows 64-bit shell extensions | |
macOS 64-bit builds | Jim Jagielski | Build server: macOS 10.13 (High Sierra w/ Xcode10 and SDX 10.11) | |||
Linux 32-bit and 64-bit builds |
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| Jim Jagielski | CentOS 5, both rpm and deb | |
Source builds |
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| Jim Jagielski | Three formats: zip, gz, bz2 | |
Upload builds to ASF Dist server (dev area) |
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| Since the dev area is an ASF controlled resource, we need to make sure we have the hashes and PGP signatures uploaded with the actual builds. Note the Release Distribution Policy. | ||
Vote on Release Candidate(s) |
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| RC1 (git-hash: 46059c9192) was accepted. See the vote resolution below. | ||
Release | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments |
Go / No Go for the release (based on votes and comments) |
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| Jim Jagielski | git-hash: 46059c9192 will be released. | |
Move builds to ASF Dist server (release area) |
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| Jim Jagielski | According to the Infrastructure team no special preparations are needed anymore. The Infrastructure team needs to know about an upcoming release to be able to prepare servers and resources and to make sure they are up and running. | |
Make sure builds are on the ASF Archive server | 21 21 |
| - | Jim Jagielski | Hash files must not be stored on public servers but only on ASF servers. |
Upload builds to SourceForge mirrors |
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| Jim Jagielski | 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" directory to hide it from the public until the official release date. | |
Create new tag | Important Do not create any tag as long as the release is not officially announced and public available. Otherwise the created build files cannot be published when a late show stopper will be found. This must be avoided in any case. | ||||
QA | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments |
Generic QA | |||||
Specific QA focused on the selected bugfixes/enhancements | |||||
Communication | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments |
Blog post: First status update and call for volunteers on dev@ mailing list | - | - | - | No Pre-Announcements were made. | |
Wiki: Prepare the Release Notes | Base Note created from template. | ||||
Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized press release | No press release was done | ||||
Announcement: Prepare Apache Press Release | No press release was done | ||||
Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized release notes | |||||
Website: Update the main AOO test download page | No test links were made. Tests were done only locally. | ||||
Website: Update the main AOO download page | After the test was successful, do the changes in the Live-System. Test again that the links are working and the metadata is correct. | ||||
Website: Update the localized download pages. | Currently the following language codes are relevant: ast, bg, ca, cs, da, de, el, es, eu, fi, fr, gd, gl, he, hi, hu, it, ja, km, ko, lt, nl, no, pl, pt, pt-BR, ru, sk, sl, sr, sv, th, tr, vi, xx, zh-CN, zh-TW | ||||
Website: Update the project's AOO pages: main and download |
| Matthias Seidel | This is the https://openoffice.apache.org/ website. Test again that the links are working and the metadata is correct. | ||
Website: Link top bar hint to the blog post | Here the large blue headline with "Apache OpenOffice X.Y.Z released" is meant. | ||||
Website: Update the ASF project information | The DOAP RDF data needs to be updated. | ||||
Remove "staged" flag from the new release directory at SourceForge | |||||
SourceForge: Update to "Latest Version" | Set the attribute "Latest Version" to all full installation files for Windows, macOS and Linux (see the icons for the correct checkbox). | ||||
Blog post: Write the announcement to the AOO blog | |||||
Announcement: Write official announcement for announce@apache.openoffice.org | |||||
Announcement: Copy the official announcement for announce@apache.org | Important Make sure to exchange the announcement link to from our AOO Wiki webpage into the one from the ASF Blog webpage. To make look more ASF official. Then the ASF press team will moderate the mail. | ||||
Forward the announcement to dev@ | |||||
Update Feed: New check.Update for the aoo416 area and all older releases | Matthias Seidel | The update notification will create a high load on the mirror servers as a lot of users will then update their AOO installation. This must be avoided. Therefore this task has to be done always 1-2 weeks after the release. Start with older releases earlier and finish with newer releases later. | |||
Go-Live | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments |
The release is live | All | Many thanks to everyone involved! |
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