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Code | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | ||
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| Appoint Release Manager |  | Ariel Constenla-Haile | He was the only candidate | ||||
| Propose string/localization updates | | Ariel Constenla-Haile | Particular language changes are considered for 4.1.4 | ||||
| Propose dictionary updates | | Matthias Seidel | See release notes for the list of updated dictionaries | ||||
| Select bugfixes and enhancements | | All | Anyone can propose a blocker either using the "4.1.4 Release Blocker" flag in Bugzilla or writing to the dev list | ||||
| Decide on the proposed release blocker | | Ariel Constenla-Haile | 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 macOS still missing but not a blocker (we don't need a buildbot for OS X release builds) | ||
| Windows 32-bit builds |
| Ariel Constenla-Haile |
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| Mac OS X macOS 64-bit builds | | Ariel Constenla-Haile | |||||
| Linux 32-bit and 64-bit builds | | Ariel Constenla-Haile | |||||
| SDK builds | | Ariel Constenla-Haile | |||||
| Source builds | | ||||||
| Upload builds to ASF Dist server (dev area) | | Ariel Constenla-Haile | |||||
| Vote on Release Candidate | | Ariel Constenla-Haile | |||||
| Go / No Go for the release (based on votes and comments) | | Ariel Constenla-Haile | |||||
| Upload builds to SF mirrors | | 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) | | ||||||
| Make sure builds are on the ASF Archive server | | Hash files must not be stored on public servers but only on ASF servers | |||||
| Sourceforge: Update to "Latest Version" | | Set the attribute "Latest Version" to all full installation files for every platform | |||||
| Update Feed: New check.Update for the aoo414 area |
| 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 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 | | ||||||
| Website: Link top bar hint to the blog post | | ||||||
| Wiki: Prepare the Release Notes | | Keith McKenna | Base note created via template | ||||
| Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized release notes | | ||||||
| Website: Update the main AOO test download page | | Test if the download links are working (binaries, hash files, release notes, etc.) | |||||
| Website: Update the main AOO download page | | ||||||
| Website: Update the project's AOO pages: main and download | | ||||||
| Website: Update the ASF project information | | The DOAP RDF data needs to be updated. | |||||
| Blog post: Write the announcement to the AOO blog | | ||||||
| Announcement: Prepare Apache Press Release | | Working together with Sally Khudairi @ Apache, based on Release Notes | |||||
| Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized press release | | ||||||
| Announcement: Write official announcement for announce@ | |
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