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2013-06-29 through 2013-1011-3108
Feature and documentation development (obviously ongoing, but continued during this period)
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2013-10-18 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.
2013-10-25 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.
2013-11-1 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.
2013-1011-31 8 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.
2013-1011-3108
Feature Freeze
All new feature need to have been merged into master by this date.
Release branch will be cut on this date.
Jenkins updated to include new release branch builds.
2013-11-01 09 through 2013-1112-2906
Testing/Bug Fixes (testing against jenkins artifacts)
Documentation Finalization
2013-1112-2906
Docs Completion Target (except release notes and translations) (Docs may be included in the release after this date, after consensus on each addition that the inclusion does not reduce release quality).
Release Branch moves to limited updates only (only commits allowed in would be release blockers fixes, translation updates, etc...)
2013-12-02 07 through 20132014-1201-2010
Translation Development and Integration (should be ongoing, but focused effort)
Final regression testing / bug fixes / doc fixes
20132014-1201-2310
4.3.0-RC1 is created, and project level VOTE is called
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